
Bored and Brilliant
How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self
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Narrated by:
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Manoush Zomorodi
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By:
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Manoush Zomorodi
An AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award Winner
This program is read by the author.
It's time to move "doing nothing" to the top of your to-do list.
In 2015 Manoush Zomorodi, host of WNYC's popular podcast and radio show Note to Self, led tens of thousands of listeners through an experiment to help them unplug from their devices, get bored, jump-start their creativity, and change their lives. Bored and Brilliant builds on that experiment to show us how to rethink our gadget use to live better and smarter in this new digital ecosystem. In this fascinating new audiobook, Manoush explains the connection between boredom and original thinking, exploring how we can harness boredom's hidden benefits to become our most productive and creative selves, without totally abandoning our gadgets in the process.
Grounding her arguments in the neuroscience and cognitive psychology of "mind wandering" - what our brains do when we're doing nothing at all - Manoush includes practical steps you can take to ease the nonstop busyness and enhance your ability to dream, wonder, and gain clarity in your work and life. The outcome is mind-blowing.
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Critic reviews
amazing book!
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good read ...reduce your device addiction
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If you are looking for a book that really emphasizes the important of being bored, or something more related to its relationship to creativity, or intelligence, where are probably better books out there. She does discuss these themes through references to other authors works, some of which I am likely to also read, so I can’t say this isn’t well researched. It just wasn’t so much the focus of the book: the major theme was applying the Bored and Brilliant Challenges and why each particular challenge matters with regards to our use of smart phones.
Still a good listen, though.
Useful, though not really what I expected
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Love this NEED this
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The narration is spot on, especially the discussion on the “two-dot” game. Great audiobook!
A great companion to the Ted Talk
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Thought Provoking and Conversational
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great read especially in this day in age
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Great topic chosen by the author. Well excuted.
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brilliant and Thought Provoking
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Manoush is my spirit animal.
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