Why you should be bored at work

These tips may not all be found useful. They are addressed to those who are bored at work. It’s so boring that only the morning contact and the afternoon youtube brighten up a little despondency. That's it from them you have to refuse. What for? Find out now.

Seriously, turn off YouTube. By willful movement of the mouse, close Vkontakte. Unsubscribe from news channels and jokes. Feel it? Feel how silence, emptiness and unbearable boredom comes? Yes, that’s exactly what we need! Let this feeling embrace you! Feel it! Feel how the brain is starving for hunger. As he asks for at least a piece of information. At least something to think about! He wants to hear about the bloody regime and funny cats. How, there will be no seals? Not a single one, even the most flaccid? Well, then ... Hey, remember, you never managed to write that asynchronous loading module? Align the button vertically? Design dropdown list? Let’s think about this at least? Or take that text rejected by the marketing department? What word did they find fault with, "crazy"? And if you change to "crazy"? A, how are you? Quickly open the editor! You did not know how to implement that function - let's write a test first! Let's parallelize the flows! Wrap flexbox!

Do you understand what happened to the brain? He had nothing to do, and he himself began to look for tasks and solve them - after all, he simply had no choice! When there is no entertainment, the entertainment becomes programming itself (layout / design / copywriting ...). For any task that is quite complex and creative, the brain will pounce with gratitude. She will be interesting to him! You can slip him all the "tough nuts" for which you were afraid to take. That is, precisely those tasks that we love to postpone - after all, it is completely incomprehensible even from which side to approach them. As soon as you recall such a task, the hand itself reaches for the mouse to open the tab with the seals. The real procrastination. At this moment you need to hold on. If you don’t know how to solve this problem - okay, don’t solve it, but don’t be distracted by cats! Allow yourself to just sit and do nothing. Look at the ceiling or just close your eyes. Do not think about anything. Bring the brain into a state of familiar information hunger, in other words - boredom. And the thing will budge!

Well, you figured out the challenge. You have written a solution. Now you are waiting for the project to compile and run or tests to run (or marketing will approve your text). This is another dangerous moment when you can break. It would seem that you are well done and you can already go look at the seals? No, seals do not belong here! Your brain should always be on a starvation diet. Open the task board or list of bugs and just look at them. You can do nothing! (But I won’t be surprised if you want to read one bug ... and then see if it plays ... and then you decide that it can be fixed in a second ...)

But what if the task is not complicated enough, and even a "hungry" brain is bored with it? After all, there are simple, but boring and monotonous tasks. Usually these are processes in which you need to repeat the same action with some variations. Here the brain can be given the task to think about the process itself. Is there any way to simplify it? Highlight repeating and changing parts, and then automate? Such a task will certainly be interesting to the brain. That is, the principle is the same: the mental resources that used to be spent on entertainment - that is, on things that are not related to your current tasks - you redirect to a creative channel.

There is still that brief moment between past and futurewhen you are back from lunch and your lunch break isn’t over yet. Here you can relax and enjoy the seals ... but only on analog, offline! Or chat with colleagues, take a walk around the office, play ping pong. The brain must rest without a computer! If he is now grabbing vidos with jokes, he will ruin the appetite, and your “diet” will go down the drain.

Finally, it can be difficult for some to get to work in the morning or after a break. This method will help: while you go to work, imagine what you will do first. Imagine that you have already come to the office, sat in your chair and turned on the computer. Where do you start? Which file will you open? You will type the first line of code - what will it be? When you come and sit at the computer, you just have to do what you have imagined. Moreover, you will want to do this as soon as possible: the brain does not like it when it hangs over it, which it has already considered and is ready to do.

So, this is the point: do not waste your brain resources. Yes, after all, reading jokes requires resources. In addition, due to the constant flow of entertainment, the brain unlearnes how to think about what requires more time and focus. Not to mention the fact that extraneous thoughts clog your mind! Put your brain on a diet. Accustom him to useful "food" - although it is more difficult to "digest" it, in the end it is she who develops the ability to think. Do not be afraid of boredom: this is a condition that precedes inspiration. And, as Pelevin said: "consciousness does not need to be expanded or deepened ... it must be gradually purified."

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