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>boredom is actually a crucial tool for making our lives happier, more productive, and more creative. -Gretchen Rubin

It reminds me of a book I read last year: Bored and Brilliant[1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Bored-Brilliant-Spacing-Productive-Cr...

> People laughed at Seymour Papert in the 1960s, more than half a century ago, when he vividly talked about children using computers as instruments for learning and for enhancing creativity, innovation, and "concretizing" computational thinking.[1]

[1] http://papert.org/

> ...our intelligence resides not in individual brains but in the collective mind. To function, individuals rely not only on knowledge that is stored within our skulls but also on knowledge stored elsewhere, be it in our bodies, in the environment or especially in other people. Put together, human thought is incredibly impressive, but at its deepest level it never belongs to any individual alone. [1]

[1] The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone https://www.amazon.com/Knowledge-Illusion-Never-Think-Alone/...