Incorporating more boredom into one's life is beneficial for cognitive benefits, even if phone screen time is reduced.

“i think we need to think about putting more boredom back into our lives because a lot of times there's so much talk around how we need to reduce our phone screen time like reduce your phone screen time reduce your phone screen time and i think that's a good thing but what tends to happen to people is they go okay i took an hour off my iphone screen time well now what do i do so they watch an hour on netflix well your brain doesn't know the difference right so i think it's it's better to have time where you're just sort of unstimulated”