Boredom
Running away from boredom results in a desire for excitement, which only leads to more boredom because your threshold for excitement keeps increasing. Instead, if we acknowledge that even the best lives are punctuated with boredom, then we will understand how this slowdown in attention can be interpreted as a welcomed state of mind.
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"What if we started measuring our days not by how productive they were, but by how peaceful they felt?"
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But if the deep roots of boredom are in a lack of meaning, rather than a shortage of stimuli, and if there is a subtle, multilayered process by which information can give rise to meaning, then the constant flow of information to which we are becoming habituated cannot deliver on such a promise. At best, it allows us to distract ourselves with the... See more
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
– Naval Ravikant
– Naval Ravikant
Switching on digital media increases boredom instead of reducing it: “Overall, our findings suggest that attempts to avoid boredom through digital switching may sometimes inadvertently exacerbate it.”
https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001639; Journal of Experimental Psychology
Boredom is a filter. Common ideas come before it. Uncommon ideas come after it. Sit with a project long enough to get bored with it, then sit a little more. The most useful insights bubble up after you get bored. — James Clear
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. Boredom can strike in widely differing contexts—when... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Boredom, that yearning for stimulation and distraction, for something to pass the time, is simply how we experience any pause in the program of control that seeks to deny pain.
Charles Eisenstein • The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Every great burst of creativity or action is inseminated with the wiles of boredom