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Why Is Everyone So Boring?
The pressure to perform and live up to the expectations of others is not a new social phenomenon — nor a bad one. **^^But the way it manifests at the internet’s global scale increases its intensity tenfold — especially for young people. The goal is no longer to simply live up to the high expectations of your parents and peers — online you could be ... See more
Molly Mielke • callings
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
I think the important thing about the real world is not that it's populated by adults, but that it's very large, and the things you do have real effects. That's what school, prison, and ladies-who-lunch all lack. The inhabitants of all those worlds are trapped in little bubbles where nothing they do can have more than a local effect. Naturally thes... See more
Paul Graham • Why Nerds are Unpopular
A ‘boring person’ is merely someone lacking the courage to be sufficiently in touch with the more troubled visceral parts of themselves.
The School of Life • The School of Life: Quotes to Live By: A collection to revive and inspire
The monotony of life contains a reservoir of ways to find relief, if we can only muster the courage and energy to dive in instead of opting out. If today you find yourself bored with your work—perhaps surfing around and reading some random essay on happiness—you may have just gotten a signal from the universe that it’s time for your spirit to evolv... See more
Arthur C. Brooks • Kierkegaard’s Three Ways to Live More Fully
Everyone in the corporate world, it seems, is in danger of falling into a nonproductive funk unless continually propped up by fresh doses of motivational adrenaline.