Being bored is good for your creativity
"Research suggests that people who want to come up with creative ideas would do well to let their minds drift. A 2014 study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology found that bored people are more prone to “divergent thinking styles”—the ability to come up with creative new ideas...[boredom] is an opportunity for us to meet our own needs—to turn inward rather than outward and tend our emotions, interact with our creativity, and give our brains a break."