A short monologue (YouTube video by James Laughlin) arguing that mobile devices can rob people of moments of boredom, which are important for reflection and creative thinking. The speaker recounts an anecdote about an early iPad user who gave it up for this reason and describes gardening as a personal discipline to disconnect and allow uninterrupted thinking.
I actually was chatting to someone the other day who was one of the lives in the States, bought one of the first iPads, you know, when iPad iPads first came out and then actually gave it away fairly quickly. And we were talking about why that was. And he said, because it's robbing me of my moments of boredom. He's like, when you're just sitting on the bus or whatever, this kind of constant need to be looking at what other people are doing, it robs you of your moments of boredom and your moments of boredom, that's when you think, it's when you reflect, it's when you come up with new ideas. And so. So since that conversation, it's a really interesting discipline, and I've tried to do this through my time in politics, is to create those moments where you just decompress, where you disconnect. I love to garden. One of the reasons I like to garden is because you can't be looking at your phone, you can't be reading things. It's just. It's you. And whatever the project is that you're doing, which you have to spend a certain amount of time thinking on, and just that opportunity to think.
