SMU Research Assistant Oh Hui Si co-authored a study [titled “Why being bored might not be a bad thing after all”] with Guihyun Park, a professor of organisational psychology at the Australian National University and Beng-Chong Lim, a business professor at NTU. The findings suggest that being disinterested in one chore at work might lead one to look for novelty in the next. For some personalities, that leads to enhanced creativity.