“I'm bored.”

I'll occasionally hear someone say this. And after years of politely offering an empty nod and pulling on a look of empathy, my reaction now is one of genuine bewilderment. Did they finish the internet? Is cancer still a problem? I don't see any flying cars. With information instantly accessible, with tomes of the world's greatest thinkers a mere swipe away, with pressing issues yet to solve, with incredible futures still to build, how can anyone possibly be bored? It's simply an unfathomable concept to me.

As a teenager I lamented sleeping because it struck me as an enormous waste of time. A psychotic episode after four days awake taught me to tolerate and sometimes now even appreciate the necessity of the nocturnal ritual.

Point is, I have a hunger for learning, a need to understand how things work, an ability to spot the patterns, the desire to improve the process. This, however, hasn't always redounded to my benefit. As a young man, the arrogance of following my muses drove me away from completing a formal education in anything resembling a timely manner. I instead scoffed at the minions trotting after slips of paper only to be stuck in traffic jams in their commute to dreary jobs from their houses in the suburbs.

I've since grown up, graduated college with a technical degree, owned a couple of businesses, worked on some worthwhile projects, and contributed in my own small ways to making the world a bit better.

I maintain a passion for learning, doing, coaching, building, creating.

And I still don't know what bored means.

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Aaron Emery

Project Manager and Advanced Certified Scrum Master with 14 years experience embracing innovation, risk, and ambiguity in process engineering, system migration, and customer-focused development projects using predictive methodologies, SDLC approaches, agile frameworks, and hybrid solutions.

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