How Being Bored Makes You More Productive

Steve Glaveski
2 min readFeb 22, 2021

When were you last bored?

Chances are as soon as boredom reared its head, you reached for your smartphone.

Within seconds you’re watching engaging YouTube videos, chatting with friends on WhatsApp, secretly admiring booty or ab selfies on Instagram (not judging), or listening in on Clubhouse chats.

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Steve Glaveski

CEO of Collective Campus. HBR writer. Author of Time Rich, and Employee to Entrepreneur. Host of Future Squared podcast. Occasional surfer.