How to use boredom to make you smarter and healthier
The Dr. Leaf Show
Dr. Caroline Leaf
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Kids love to discover new things with their mouths. |
| 0:05.0 | But some things aren't safe. |
| 0:08.0 | So most Erastel lithium coin batteries are coated with a repulsive taste to make children spit them out. |
| 0:15.0 | Duracelle lithium coining up the mental mess. We've all had that itchy, edgy feeling, |
| 0:35.4 | that urge to be doing something, anything other than what we're doing right now. |
| 0:39.9 | It's boredom and it doesn't feel great and as ubiquitous as the experience is |
| 0:46.0 | only recently have scientists begun to take a close look at the feeling and |
| 0:50.0 | they're finding that while boredom might be unpleasant, it's bringing a message we would do well to pay attention to. |
| 0:58.0 | It's telling you that what you're doing now isn't working. Do something else. In today's podcast I discuss this as well as some |
| 1:06.2 | exercises to help you take advantage of boredom and make it work for you and not against |
| 1:11.1 | you. Just a quick note if you want to listen to the full version |
| 1:15.0 | you can watch ad free on the neurocycle app |
| 1:18.0 | and to download the neurocycle app |
| 1:20.0 | look for neurocycle on the app store and Google Play and there is a web version at neurocycle. app. |
| 1:25.6 | The link in details will be in the show notes. |
| 1:28.0 | Let's dive in. |
| 1:30.0 | As you can see on the screen, I'm going to talk about the benefits of boredom. |
| 1:37.0 | I'm sure you've been bored, I'm sure you've had your kids telling you they're bored, I'm sure you've been in a meeting or at school or in a lecture or sitting listening to |
| 1:47.3 | someone who's just super boring. We've all experienced it and boring does have benefits. Okay, so we're going to talk about |
| 1:56.1 | These now so |
| 1:58.1 | Boredum is basically that pesky feeling that occurs when we lose interest in our surroundings or what people are saying or |
| 2:05.0 | activities or in the relationship or in the conversation or the TV show, it's common. it can be associated with laziness, but generally it's more likely |
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