Boredom is associated with increased creativity.

“there's these really interesting studies around boredom and creativity and they're like totally hilarious too is that they'll take one group of people and they'll let them do you know whatever they want put them in a room and like people bought their cell phones or whatever they'll take another group and they will bore the hell out of these people and then they'll give them a creativity test and the board group always comes up with more more creative answers than the non-board group”