After yesterday’s column on the Gift of Boredom, I decided to delve a little more on the benefits of being bored: Enhanced creativity: Boredom can force your mind to wander and explore new ideas. When you’re not focused on specific tasks, your brain has the opportunity to come up with…


Robert Clements is a newspaper columnist and writes a daily column, which has graced the pages of over 60 newspapers and magazines, from a daily column in the Khaleej Times, Dubai, the Morning Star, London, and in nearly every state in India, from The Statesman in Kolkata, to the Kashmir Times in Kashmir to the Trinity Mirror in Chennai.