As a counterpoint, all of my good ideas come while preoccupied with mundane tedium. The mind will try really hard to come up with something more important or exciting it would rather be doing. (The trick is to not go on a bottomless wikipedia spree but first short-circuit the daydream into hastily written notes and return to the mundane.) I'm not sure I would want to be constantly enjoying others' conversation, because when will my own shy thoughts bubble up?