Which is precisely why boredom is important. It can lead to some truly creative thoughts.

But if you are meditating or thinking about work, are you bored?

I don't think I've felt bored in decades precisely because I have so many things I like to think about. I'm not sure I could even turn that stuff off to actually feel bored any more.

>if you are meditating or thinking about work, are you bored?

You are doing those things to escape boredom. The idea isn’t to stay in a perpetual state of boredom. The point is to induce boredom, so that it pushes you towards doing things you wouldn’t normally do, in order to escape it.

I suppose if I dedicated enough time to it (like a multi-day silent retreat), boredom would eventually come.

That makes sense. If I just stay bored, I probably start daydreaming and nothing comes of it.

> The point is to induce boredom

Still doesn't sound like a great idea.

Seems to work for a lot of people, including me.

"Inducing boredom" doesn't mean "sit down in your apartment like you normally would, but force yourself to do nothing and get bored just because." I always understood it as "put yourself in an environment with limited options, so that you would feel more encouraged to do something productive/creative that you always wanted to do (but couldn't due to all the outside distraction/overstimulation) in order to escape boredom."

I feel this way too. Maybe I misinterpreted the article but I almost felt guilty for never feeling bored. Even though I'm never bored not out of technological stimulation but rather my own internal mental stimulation. Full of ideas and thoughts and things to think more on or things to discover, areas of life I have not yet given the time to think about.