How Boredom Can Lead To Your Most Brilliant Ideas

How Boredom Can Lead To Your Most Brilliant Ideas


 Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems. Learn to love being bored as Manoush Zomorodi explains the connection between spacing out and creativity.

I daren't reveal how many brilliant ideas, or what I thought could be, I have had when doing mundane tasks so take heart when you are busy tending to what are considered soul destroyingly boring work.  Remember the silver lining!

 

 

10 Best Career Moves For Women

Careers for Women



For women, the 30s can be a tough age career-wise. You might be trying to figure out how to juggle work and a family. You might be secure in your job, but longing for a new challenge or opportunity for advancement. Or you might be frustrated by the widening pay gap between you and your male colleagues — which grows with age, according to research by the American Association of University Women.

“When you’re in your 30s, you’ve reached a critical point in your career,” said life and career coach Anna S. E. Lundberg. That’s why it’s important to take steps to figure out what you want and ensure you’re on a path to success. Here are the 10 best moves women in their 30s can make to advance their careers, earn more and achieve their goals.