{"id":4202,"date":"2015-02-11T21:18:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T05:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/?p=4202"},"modified":"2015-02-11T21:18:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T05:18:11","slug":"turning-boredom-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/career-advice\/on-the-job\/turning-boredom-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Boredom into Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/gov-talk\/career-advice\/on-the-job\/turning-boredom-innovation\/attachment\/boredom\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4203\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/boredom.jpg\" alt=\"boredom\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/boredom.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/boredom-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.careersingovernment.com\/tools\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/boredom-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s that time of year when we tend to get the winter blahs. The holidays are over, we\u2019ve lost steam on our New Year\u2019s resolutions, and spring is not yet on the horizon. Blah, blah, blah. How do we turn our dissatisfaction with the doldrums into creative new ideas?<\/p>\n<p>Boredom can be the cause of great creative breakthroughs, coined here as \u201cblahnivations.\u201d In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2014\/09\/the-creative-benefits-of-boredom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">recent research findings<\/a> show that being in a state of boredom can trigger divergent thinking\u2014the generation of new and different ideas. It makes sense. Remember when you were a kid and you had nothing to do? Were some of your most creative games and projects a result of being bored? The Frisbee, for example, came about because kids started throwing Frisbie Pie brand pie pans around for fun. In the 1940s, Wham-O began marketing the plastic Frisbee as a toy.<\/p>\n<p>Work can be very boring at times, and that can be a good thing. Research shows that the purpose of the state (or possible emotion) of boredom is to cause us to want to do something else. When the accountant is bored stiff from entering data into the database the same, tedious way, day after day, she may come up with a better way of doing it\u2014a blahnivation. In fact, Richard Drew invented masking tape from seeing how tedious it was for auto body painters to paint perfectly straight lines between colors on cars.<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s about Time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What can you do to turn your blahs into blahnivations? The key to getting from boredom to innovation is time. You need to make time to be bored and daydream. If you combat boredom by playing on your phone or checking email, your mind won\u2019t have the time to think of new things. Instead, you\u2019ll just be distracted.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to what we practice these days, staying incessantly busy is not the way to innovate. It\u2019s the downtime, the shifting gears, the idle time that let our minds wander into new ways of thinking and enable the new ideas percolate to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>So, instead of fearing the blahs and avoiding the blahs, embrace them and let your mind wander. And have some fun daydreaming in the process.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the importance of boredom and how to generate creative ideas, read Joanie Connell\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/flyingwithout.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Flying without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s that time of year when we tend to get the winter blahs. The holidays are over, we\u2019ve lost steam on our New Year\u2019s resolutions, and spring is not yet on the horizon. Blah, blah, blah. How do we turn our dissatisfaction with the doldrums into creative new ideas? 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Connell is an organizational consultant and leadership coach who specializes in maximizing leadership potential. She works with companies to attract, develop, and retain top talent. She works with individuals to improve their success and happiness in their careers. She is also an author of a soon-to-be-released book called \u201cFlying without a Helicopter: How to Prepare Young People for Work and Life.\u201d As a consultant, Joanie develops leaders across generations. She coaches executives and youth at Flexible Work Solutions. She consults with organizations in a variety of areas, including executive leadership development, diversity, generations, flexible work arrangements, work-life balance, life transitions, character and ethics, team building, and virtual teams. Her clients are from Fortune 100 companies, not-for-profit, and government agencies and high tech, biotech, healthcare, finance, legal and other industries. As a professor, she teaches\/has taught business and psychology students of all ages at the Rady School of Management at the University of California San Diego, the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management at Alliant International University, and in the Masters in Human Behavior program at National University. Joanie earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in Engineering from Harvard University. Joanie is available to consult, coach, present keynote speeches, and make media appearances. 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