Most of us have been led to believe that boredom is a state of mind to be avoided at all cost……maybe not…
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Why Boredom Is Good For You
Boredom is more than a mere flagging of interest or a precursor to mischief. Some experts say that people tune things out for good reasons, and that over time boredom becomes a tool for sorting information — an increasingly sensitive spam filter.
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Boredom is good for you, study claims | Science | The Guardian
Being bored can motivate people to ‘engage in prosocial tasks and encourage more meaningful behaviour’ If this weekend is yawning ahead of you, offering nothing but the same old routines and dull chores, then don’t despair: boredom is good for you, a new study claims. Far from dulling the mind and leading to a lack of productivity, boredom can inspire people to seek out ways of being altruistic, empathatic and to engage in prosocial tasks, particularly unpleasant ones such as giving blood.
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Yet boredom is more than a mere flagging of interest or a precursor to mischief. Some experts say that people tune things out for good reasons, and that over time boredom becomes a tool for sorting information — an increasingly sensitive spam filter. In various fields including neuroscience and education, research suggests that falling into a numbed trance allows the brain to recast the outside world in ways that can be productive and creative at least as often as they are disruptive.
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Boredom is a virtue…
I have written a few pieces (here, here, and here) about why I think that boredom is one of the prime motivators in education. This idea is a strange sort of tribute to the innumerable students who have been saddled with incredibly boring classes, incompetent teachers, and worthless tasks… This is all about humanity triumphing over group think, mediocrity, and the encroachments of the bureaucrats.
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Are boring films good for the soul? | Film | The Observer
A troubling issue has gripped film critics. Are "boring" films really good for you? And if so, are cinema audiences of the future likely to sit still long enough to take their medicine?
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Interesting Talk About Boring Movies
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Boredom, like the modern novel, was born in the 18th century, and came into full flower in the 19th. The Oxford English Dictionary”s first recorded use of “to bore” dates to a 1768 letter by the Earl of Carlisle, mentioning his “Newmarket friends, who are to be bored by these Frenchmen.” “Bores,” meaning boring things, arrived soon after, followed by human bores. By the time of the O.E.D.”s first citation of the noun “boredom” in 1852, in Dickens”s “Bleak House” (where it occurs six times by my
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The joy of boredom – The Boston Globe
A DECADE AGO, those monotonous minutes were just a fact of life: time ticking away, as you gazed idly into space, stood in line, or sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic. Boredom’s doldrums were unavoidable, yet also a primordial soup for some of life’s most quintessentially human moments.
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RealClearScience – Boredom is Good for You
If this weekend is yawning ahead of you, offering nothing but the same old routines and dull chores, then don’t despair: boredom is good for you, a new study claims. Far from dulling the mind and leading to a lack of productivity, boredom can inspire people to seek out ways of being altruistic, empathatic and to engage in prosocial tasks, particularly unpleasant ones such as giving blood.
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