The meaning of boredom: Properly managing childhood boredom could lead to more fulfilling lives
Izumi Ueharapmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The meaning of boredom: Properly managing childhood boredom could lead to more fulfilling lives
When You're Bored, You're Being Shaped.
Boredom isn’t the absence of stimulation. It’s a test. Of what you reach for. Of what you default to.
Do you grab your phone? Or a pen? Do you scroll? Or sit with your thoughts? Do you numb? Or build?
Because what you do when you're bored becomes who you are when you're not.
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pathsofstoicismsubstack.comIn the early 1900s, psychoanalytic theorists speculated that people became bored out of unfulfilled unconscious desire. Midcentury existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre, by contrast, saw boredom as a fundamental philosophical crisis, what Schopenhauer once termed "the feeling of the emptiness of life."
Could boredom be curable? - The Boston Globe
Boring places can impact our mental health, stifling our ‘biological need for intrigue’.48 But boredom also has a purpose. As Sherry Turkle puts it, ‘Boredom can be recognized as your imagination calling you.’49 For her, such moments are ‘signs to attend more closely to things, not to turn away’.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
What if we saw boredom not as a warning sign but as a progress indicator?
When you're bored:
Boredom, in this light, becomes not ju... See more
When you're bored:
- You've moved past the shiny beginner phase
- You've reached a level of competence where conscious effort decreases
- You're approaching the territory where mastery can emerge
- You're at the exact point where most competitors quit
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