Brief Summary
This video suggests eight activities to do when bored, spanning physical, mental, creative, and financial categories. These include stretching, playing a push-up game, taking an IQ test, using Monkey to improve social skills, creating content, learning a new skill (like a language with Lingopie), selling unwanted items, and researching online side hustles. The aim is to turn boredom into productive and potentially beneficial activities.
- Stretching for physical health.
- Using online platforms to enhance social and creative skills.
- Exploring financial opportunities through sales and learning about side hustles.
The video introduces the concept of combating boredom with productive activities, distinguishing itself from a previous video on the same topic by offering entirely new suggestions. It sets the stage for exploring eight different activities across physical, mental, creative, and financial domains.
The first suggestion to combat boredom is stretching, which is often neglected, especially by younger individuals. The video provides a full stretching routine that includes hip flexor stretches (30 seconds each side), leaning forward with feet together (30 seconds), wide position side stretches (30 seconds each side), and bridges (five repetitions for three sets).
Another physical activity suggested is a push-up game using a deck of cards. Each card drawn corresponds to the number of push-ups to be performed, with face cards (Jack, Queen, King) counting as 10. The game continues until the deck is finished or the person can no longer do any more push-ups.
The video suggests taking an IQ test as a mental exercise to self-analyze intelligence. It recommends a specific website for a free IQ test that takes 25-30 minutes to complete. The results can be compared to the average IQ of 100, and the test can be retaken for a potentially better score.
To develop social skills, the video suggests using Monkey to talk to strangers. This unconventional method involves speaking with people from around the world, allowing users to practice comedy, improve social skills, gain confidence, and overcome social anxiety in a video game-like setting.
The first creative activity suggested is making content, which tests creative skills through filming, editing, and posting. The video advises picking a niche, such as fitness, photography, or a specific video game, and choosing to create videos with or without showing one's face. Content can range from time-lapses of building Lego sets to reaction videos or tutorials.
Learning a new skill is presented as another creative outlet. This could be a physical skill like a calisthenic move, editing, playing an instrument, or learning a new language. The video promotes Lingopie, which teaches languages through shows and movies with interactive captions and group classes, noting that bilingual individuals often have better cognitive functions and multitasking skills.
The video suggests selling unwanted items as a financial activity. This accessible task involves taking pictures of items collecting dust and posting them on Facebook Marketplace to turn them into cash. This also teaches sales and negotiation skills as sellers negotiate prices with potential buyers.
The final suggestion is to use boredom as an opportunity to learn about side hustles and ways to make money online. The video highlights the digital age as a time of opportunity for online income through affiliate marketing, copywriting, SaaS, content creation, Drop Shipping, and e-commerce. The video also references another video that ranks the best and worst side hustles to start in 2025.
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0:00 oh my God I'm so bored right now let me just scroll for a bit bro that means you can do anything you want yeah but I don't know what to do instead of wasting your time scrolling here are eight things you can do when you're bored starting with physical by the way if you watched the previous video I did on this these are completely new things you can do when you're bored first thing you can do when you're board is to stretch and I know what you're saying what are you talking about stretching listen I know you probably don't prioritize stretching especially if you're young you probably neglect it if you're bored and you got nothing else to do then use this time to do something that's good for you which is stretching and here's a full stretching routine you can do right now start here hip flexors 30 seconds other side now Take it Back Lean Forward 30 seconds other side feet together lean down 30 seconds hold go in a wide position like this onto one side stretch
0:46 it out 30 seconds other side and finish it off with Bridges so start in this position come under go upwards come back down and repeat do that five times for three sets number two is a push-up game this is the kind of things you see in the movies when you're locked in prisoners do this in their cell simply grab a deck of cards let me go outside and show you how it works you're going to grab a deck of cards whatever number you get is how many push-ups you have to do so here I have five five push-ups grab another card it's a queen now the 10 the Jack the queen and the King are all 10 push-up grab another one four and just keep doing that until you finish the deck of cars or until you can't do any more push-up moving into mental the first thing you can do under mental when you're bored is taking an IQ test this
1:32 is a good way to self-analyze your intelligence and test yourself to see what your IQ actually is this is the website I recommend you do for a free IQ test it'll take you about 25 to 30 minutes go through the questions and it'll tell you your IQ at the end you can then compare it to the average IQ and see if you're above it or below it then you can retake it if you want to retest yourself and hopefully get a better score and to put into perspective the average IQ regardless of your age or gender is 100 to try to get better than 100 number two under mental and this is to develop your social skills is to go on monkey and to talk to stranger this is a pretty unconventional thing to do but this is something I used to do in the past when I wanted to develop my social skills and kind of step out of my comfort zone and get over that social anxiety that I have if you haven't heard of monkey it's basically like Omega you
2:17 go on and you speak to strangers all over the world because you're talking to strangers online you can basically practice whatever you want if you want to get better at comedy if you want to develop your social skills become more confident you can ask questions you can basically treat it like a video game and try to develop your social skills with it here's a little example of me just giving it a shot I have a question for you bro why are you on monkey is it cuz you're bored I want to found Muslim people okay and just connect with people yeah connect with Muslim people like religion you know yeah yeah it's really cool bro now in the with the online world you know you can make money online from your phone yeah bro that's exactly yeah thank you bro and it was good meeting you man yeah that's now jumping over to creative the first thing you can do when you're bored under creative is making content the whole process of
3:02 making content is something that tests your creative skills from filming to editing to posting the video here's what I recommend you do pick a niche something that you're interested in this can be Fitness this can be photography this can be a specific video game that you're playing and then you can choose to make a video either recording your face or making a faceless video where you're simply doing a voice over and then adding overlay and post editing and let's say you're posting on Tik Tok you can either make it on a Tik Tok account that you already have or you can make a completely different private account if you don't want your friends or family knowing about it what's cool about this is that it allows you to stay creative you're making a piece of content which either provides value or entertainment and who knows something that simply started as you being bored and making videos might turn into something more serious and full-time for you and it can be absolutely anything if you have a
3:48 Lego set you can do a time lapse of you building the Lego also if you saw the last video I did on things to do in your board I told you I had a Lego set that I hadn't built yet well here it is I built it the Bugatti anyways you can film yourself doing a reaction video reacting to music video a YouTube video a show whatever it is you can do a tutorial video showing the viewers how to do a specific workout how to do a weird skill that you know how to do get creative with it and go through the process of making a video filming editing and posting the video the second thing you can do under creative is learning a new skill now which skill that is that's completely up to you it can be a physical skill like trying to learn a new calisthenic skill such as a handstand it can be learning editing skills and relating that to filming your piece of content it could be an instrument let's say you had a guitar in your house that you've never touched in your life pick it up watch a YouTube
4:35 video and try to learn guitar or it could be learning a new language and you can do this with L goai you basically pick which language you're interested in learning your age your gender Etc then it curates specific shows and movies you can watch in that language and it teaches you that language while you're watching that show or movie so it shows you captions you can click on these captions to learn the specific words you can also join group classes where you're learning from an instructor on how to speak that language you're taking tests you're improving with that language over time was basically mixing in both fun and entertainment with learning a new skill which in this case is learning a new language they did sponsor this video and if you guys want to try out in goai you can check out the link in the top description below or the pin comment at the top and a little fun fact they see that people that are bilingual have better cognitive functions and have
5:21 better multitasking skills I personally speak English French and a little bit of Arabic so I'll take that fact and I'll roll with it because it makes me feel good about myself and finally going into the last segment Financial the first thing you can do under Financial if you're bored is selling unwanted item this is the only thing on this list that I've included in my past video as well only because it's something extremely accessible it's something anybody can do but a lot of people neglect doing this here's the thing you have plenty of unwanted items in your room simply collecting dust and space now you can take these items take a simple picture of it and post it on Facebook Marketplace and just like that you'll turn an unwanted item that you never use or you were never going to use Into Cash that you can then spend on something else it's also teaches you sales and negotiation because when you post something online people are going to give you an offer then you have to negotiate a better price that works in
6:08 your favor go back and forth until you settle on a final price and at the same time it's going to allow you to clear up a bunch of random things in your room and the final thing under Financial is learning side hustle use this time you have right now to learn about ways to make money online because let me tell you we are living in a digital gold age right now where you can make money online in so many ways you can learn about affiliate marketing copywriting SAS content creat Drop Shipping e-commerce I also just made a video ranking the best or the worst side hustles to start in 2025 so you can check out this video right here it's very informative it'll introduce to side hustles how to start them and how much you can make with these side hustles now get off YouTube and do something I mentioned in this video hope you enjoyed it make sure to like And subscribe turn those post notifications on so you know exactly when I upload and that's it I will see you in the next
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