Book Insights on Boredom 👇
„Tolstoy had this great quote in Anna Karenina that says boredom is a ‚desire for desires‘. So boredom is a motivational state.
The hours of attention we are giving to digital media isn‘t free. It‘s all spent in focused mode. Think of this focused state like lifting a weight and the unfocused state like resting. When we kill our boredom by burying our minds in a phone, TV or computer, our brain is putting forth a shocking amount of effort and we overwork it.
Our collective lack of boredom may be causing us to reach near-crisis level of mental fatigue. Overworked, undermaintained minds are linked to depression, life dissatisfaction, the perception that life goes by quicker, and increasingly missing the beauty of life that only presents itself when we allow our mind to wander and be aware of something other than a screen.“
From: The Comfort Crisis by Michael Easter
How are you dealing with boredom? Trying to push it away and be busy or allow your mind to wander?
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