Creative boredom

rosa-cornelia-2019http://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.

2 thoughts on “Creative boredom

  1. I’m fortunate, I guess. I don’t recall ever having been bored in my life. There are too many interesting thoughts to pursue and things to do to have time to get bored. Interesting article.

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