[Paul_D_Santana]

I would add that you should also allow yourself to get "bored" as that is often what leads to creativity and other breakthroughs.

My last blog post was actually the result of exactly that, when ironically, I had finished reading all of the posts that interested me on the front page of Hacker News.

[doriandargan]

Yeah for sure. Allowing yourself to be "bored" lets your mind escape the patterns it's too often stuck in.