Something I have said often: one benefit of going to college is to learn ways of keeping yourself amused in your free time.
Why do kids these days have their faces glued to their phones? They're bored. Their interests are few. Some have no interests, and just need to check in with their classmates.
I didn't have a cellphone when I was 12, and my parents were around 40 at that time, and probably would not have given me one (even if available). I just went home after school, and read the book I was in the middle of reading: Hardy Boys, probably. They were really too short!
Kids are difficult to keep amused. But adults, too, are all too easily bored. The smartest people are less likely to get bored. On the other hand, smart 'kids' get bored, too. The important thing is to have a ton of ideas in your head, so that any idea that happens to cross your mind connects up with related ideas that are already there, waiting for it.
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