Why I Deleted All My Apps and Tripled My Income

The counterintuitive productivity secret that sounds too simple to work (but changed everything)

Last week, I did something that would've terrified me a year ago. I sat in my living room for 30 minutes. No phone. No music. No podcast playing in the background. Just me and the deafening silence.

My brain screamed for the first 10 minutes. By minute 15, I was mentally reorganizing my entire business. By minute 30? I'd solved a problem that had been haunting me for months.

Here's what nobody tells you about success: The people crushing it aren't the ones working 24/7. They're the ones who've learned to weaponize something most of us run from like the plague.

Boredom.

The Trap We've All Fallen Into

I used to think I was productive. My calendar was packed. I consumed endless content about optimization, productivity hacks, morning routines. I had apps to track my apps. I was "grinding" from 6 AM to midnight.

But here's the embarrassing truth: I was accomplishing less than when I worked half as much in college.

Why? Because I'd become addicted to the feeling of being busy. Every moment of potential silence was immediately filled with something. A podcast while cooking. YouTube while eating. Music while working. Even scrolling Twitter while waiting for my coffee to brew.

I'd trained my brain to need constant stimulation. And in doing so, I'd killed my ability to think deeply about anything.

Think about your own day. When was the last time you just... sat? No inputs. No distractions. Just you and your thoughts. If you're like most people, the answer is probably never. We've created lives where boredom is treated like a disease to be cured.

But what if that's exactly backwards?