Pondering 'Brain Death'

Firstly, some truisms, that may or mayn't be related:

• 'Idiot Labor' - that is, unskilled, repetitive, low stimulus work - has a tendency to kill a person's creativity;
• Manual idiot labor is to be preferred, if one engages in it at all, as it is, at least, possible to complete one's tasks almost on 'auto-pilot'. Clerical idiot labor requires one's full attention and so there are fewer possibilities for diversion to make the time pass more quickly;
• Long periods of inactive solitude - such as working in a store with few customers - can either lead to a desire for 'make-work' or boredom. Either way, attempts at non-work creativity are very difficult to maintain;
• Work related creativity can be very satisfying - that is, finding new ways to do old things or new things to do - but the issue is maintaining a sufficiently steady pace, especially once the novelty has worn thin.

In order to avoid such kinds of mental stagnation and numbness personally, I have relied upon such external stimuli as blog writing, reading, my websites and many radio-related issues and topics. I do not read 'pulp fiction' (mass-market paperbacks) - never having been much interested in it - and tend to browse for long periods. In writing, I try and keep my arguments both rational and lucid, my prose purple, my love of euphony steering that wavy line between it and hyperbole.

Concerning our business, I have been stymied by the strength of the matriarchy in the practical application of solutions to the issues as I see them. I am only able to come up with novel approaches in isolation because it is highly unlikely they would be accepted. as they go against the traditionalist grain. For example, I have proposed that we maintain a small 'core list' of those items most useful to our smaller commercial customers and offer them at a greatly reduced price. Of course, such an idea runs directly counter to the Mexican "gouge 'em 'til they bleed" way of doing business.

And so I find myself wondering, once and again, whether my 'brain-death avoidance techniques' have been flawed in their approach as they have not directly contributed to the knowledge base required for being here.