{"id":337,"date":"2025-05-14T05:05:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/craig-mod-on-the-creative-power-of-walking-literary-hub\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T05:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T05:05:32","slug":"craig-mod-on-the-creative-power-of-walking-literary-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/craig-mod-on-the-creative-power-of-walking-literary-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Mod on the Creative Power of Walking \u2039 Literary Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When I\u2019m not talking, just walking (which is most of the time), I try to cultivate the most bored state of mind imaginable. A total void of stimulation beyond the immediate environment. My rules: No news, no social media, no podcasts, no music. No \u201cteleporting,\u201d you could say. The phone, the great teleportation device, the great murderer of boredom. And yet, boredom:&nbsp;the great engine of creativity. I now believe with all my heart that it\u2019s only in the crushing silences of boredom\u2014without all that black-mirror dopamine \u2014 that you can access your deepest creative wells. And for so many people these days, they\u2019ve never so much as attempted to dip in a ladle, let alone dive down into those uncomfortable waters made accessible through boredom.<\/p>\n<p>For me, from this boredom\u2014this blankness of mind as I walk past sometimes fields and sometimes giant gambling pachinko parlors\u2014words flow. I can\u2019t stop them. My mind begins writing about what we see and refuses to shut up. That gap created by a lack of artificial stimulation is filled\u2014thanks to the magic plasticity of our brains\u2014with words and more words. Without Candy Crush, an inverted event horizon spawns, and out shoots: thoughts.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/craig-mod-on-the-creative-power-of-walking\">lithub.com\/craig-mod-on-the-creative-power-of-walking<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I\u2019m not talking, just walking (which is most of the time), I try to cultivate the most bored state of mind imaginable. A total void of stimulation beyond the immediate environment. My rules: No news, no social media, no podcasts, no music. No \u201cteleporting,\u201d you could say. The phone, the great teleportation device, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}