15-Minute Boredom Trick To Make You Creative

Mr Murugan and Ms Fong · Sep 10, 2026 · 4m

A person is alone with their own mind for twelve seconds and immediately reaches for a phone, as though they had been abandoned in a forest.No danger. No emergency. Just a queue, a waiting room, a lift that takes slightly too long.We have built an entire civilisation around avoiding one awkward pause. Mr Murugan and Ms Fong on what that pause was actually doing, and what it costs to keep deleting it.IN THIS EPISODE

Boredom as a signal, not a defect — the psychological case that it flags a situation no longer offering enough meaning, challenge or purpose

"Boredom is not the absence of…