The creative purpose of boredom

http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/06/19/adam-phillips-boredom/

“A century and a half ago, Kierkegaard argued that this impulse to escape the present by keeping ourselves busy is our greatest source of unhappiness. A century later, Susan Sontag wrote in her diary about the creative purpose of boredom. And yet ours is a culture that equates boredom with the opposite of creativity and goes to great lengths to offer us escape route.”

I found this article above  very interesting and I hope you will too