Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

When was the last time you were bored?

You were just maybe sitting on the sofa, looking at the ceiling, maybe looking out the window, scratching around for your phone. I see you.

I saw this interview clip recently. Someone sent it to me and it was around the case for boredom.

And it was a professor who was talking saying that it's really a, not just a shame or a

pity, but it's a problem that we don't allow our children to be bored. And that as adults,

we don't experience boredom very often. Now, I get it, right? Like you've got a busy full life.

I'm sure you work. You manage friends.

You manage family. So it's not like there are these huge pockets in the day where there's nothing to do.

I understand that. But even waiting for an elevator, pulling up at a red light, even if you're

walking down the street and you have to pause for

ever reason because there's traffic, what do we do? We whip out the phone, don't we? We check

our notifications. We log into Instagram for a second. We open Candy Crush. We check our email.

We log into our WhatsApp. we check our podcast reviews,

he or is that just me? We never, I don't want to say never, but we very rarely allow ourselves

to be bored. We even take the phone into the bathroom with us, into the bath if we take

one. We are so connected and stimulated. No wonder we can't sleep.

The case for boredom was simple. It's about being alone with your thoughts. Can you do that or is it

too uncomfortable? I went to this bar recently to meet a friend

and there was the football playing, there was music playing. It was just so loud and I was like,

what's wrong with a quiet place? Why can't we just sit down and have nothing blaring and just

have our conversation? Are we so afraid of silence?

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