My name is Raven. I design and market visual advocacy tools for an NPO start-up in Chicago, IL.
Yellow is my favorite color.
Work that doesn’t require a lot brain power is hard. Usually because work that doesn’t require brain power is indubitably boring. It might even be the death of you.
Boring work is safe. It’s predictable. It’s comfortable. It inspires you to remain uninspirational. Curiousity takes hiatus because boring work doesn’t require that you be curious. It demands that you be focused. This means that you concentrate on being boring. You become comfortable with boring because it’s safer to do.
Staying comfortable may keep you safe, but it keeps you shamelessly staid. You don’t have to worry about innovation because you aren’t forced to think on your toes. And thinking on your toes is a little dangerous because you might get it wrong. And, you worry about being wrong.
But, what if you aren’t?
Being safe and worry free are not the same thing. People spending 8 hours of the day being bored (and knowing it) aren’t contributing much to the grand spectrum anything. They worry about being wrong. They’re too busy being safe.
And safe just isn’t any fun.
