Revisited: The Beautiful Brilliance of Boredom with Creative Polymath Elle Cordova

Team Simon is revisiting some of the episodes you helped make our favorites of the year until A Bit of Optimism returns on January 27, 2026, with brand-new episodes. We’re rewinding back to August, when talented polymath Elle Cordova joined the show and unpacked how we’re all wired to chase the next spark. We scroll, swipe, refresh, and repeat—but some of our brightest ideas sneak in when we stop chasing, let boredom settle in, and give our minds room to wander. Elle knows the power of that pause. When the pandemic hit pause on her life as a touring musician, she stumbled into new creative territory—making offbeat comedy videos about delightfully nerdy topics like particle physics, grammar, and fonts. Those sketches went viral, and suddenly she was thriving as a social media creator with a devoted following. In this episode, Simon and Elle talk about finding what truly lights you up, pushing through writer’s block, working with anxiety—and yes, Star Wars makes an appearance (because of course it does). Plus, Elle treats us to a live, in-studio performance of her song “Roswell.” This… is A Bit of Optimism. --------------------------- For more on Elle, check out:

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Revisited: The Beautiful Brilliance of Boredom with Creative Polymath Elle Cordova is an episode from A Bit of Optimism by The Optimism Company from Simon Sinek.

This episode is 63:10 long.

This episode was published on Dec 30, 2025.

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