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."
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.