Boredom: creative catalyst or horrible feeling?
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🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The science of boredom is confusing. Depending on the study it is considered helpful, or harmful. Today we are going to look into why, and how we can all cope or even thrive in the midst of pandemic boredom.
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| 0:00.0 | Contrary to your personal subjects with the facts you be tense, but we are a subscience here to make things make sense |
| 0:06.9 | Today we are talking all about boredom |
| 0:10.3 | I know we're all pretty bored of the pandemic right now |
| 0:12.6 | But we're gonna be going through some cool studies that not only talk about the pitfalls and the bad parts of boredom |
| 0:18.0 | But some |
| 0:18.8 | Upside of being bored in the first place. So let's be bored together |
| 0:22.7 | Hopefully you're not bored during the pod, but if so we're gonna bring you a little bit of sprinkles sprinkles sprinkles goodness |
| 0:30.8 | Yeah, I've got a cool study about that |
| 0:33.1 | But I mean, yeah, hopefully the pod isn't boring hopefully you're listening it to it because you are bored |
| 0:37.7 | Um, how are you bored Greg? Oh for sure like in general yeah |
| 0:44.8 | Ah the pandemic has made me very bored I think and so I cope by reading writing arithmetic |
| 0:52.9 | uh |
| 0:55.5 | And I would say that in gen zine board like are you not I'm just feeling really uncomfortable cuz I'm like I'm not supposed to be |
| 1:02.0 | I am bored. I think most of all |
| 1:05.0 | Things are so repetitive. Yeah, it's this kind of |
| 1:08.4 | It's not always bored of that sets in for me, but it's monotony which I guess is probably what boredom is |
| 1:15.0 | Girl cassaurus that boredom word to got monot |
| 1:17.8 | I know |
| 1:19.2 | No, I mean like cuz I think they're I kind of think they're different if I'm being honest. I think that yeah cuz to me |
| 1:25.0 | When I actually become bored and I'll kind of talk about this later in my study is I actually it kicks me my button to gear |
| 1:31.0 | To like be like okay, I need to go do something else |
| 1:33.2 | But because it's monotonous I'm still doing things. I'm just kind of trapped in doing those things interesting |
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