Being bored
Exploring the nature of boredom, Lars Svendsen delves into its causes, its connection to meaning, and the importance of caring and commitment in finding purpose in life.
domobaal.comBeing bored
This is why boredom can feel so surprisingly, aggressively unpleasant: we tend to think of it merely as a matter of not being particularly interested in whatever it is we’re doing, but in fact it’s an intense reaction to the deeply uncomfortable experience of confronting your limited control.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
So when I talk about digital detoxing, for example, the number one step is to understand psychological discomfort. It's to understand that boredom is telling you, the emotion is telling you, I am underwhelmed with life. This life doesn't excite me.
The response is not Netflix. The response is how can I make my life more exciting? And once you get
... See more“If, on the other hand, [the human animal] lacks objects of willing, because it is at once deprived of them again by too easy a satisfaction, a fearful emptiness and boredom comes over it; in other words, its being and its existence become an intolerable burden for it. Hence it swings like a pendulum to and fro between pain and boredom.” But the
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