Welcome to Unfuck Your Brain, the only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism

and coaching to rewire your brain and get what you want in life.

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, feminist rock star, and master coach,

Tara, Lowend Thile.

Hello, my chickens.

How are you all doing today?

I am actually recording this episode about maybe three or four days into the voluntary self-quarantine,

social distancing period.

A lot of us are experiencing or did experience.

And so it's kind of perfect that the topic I had already scheduled for this podcast is

boredom.

Because boredom is something that a lot of us are going to experience quite a bit during

this pandemic period.

And I think because we are so bad with handling boredom, we're going to be trying to escape

it in a variety of ways that aren't great for us, like buffering with food or booze or

netflix or buffering with the news, right?

I think our brains sometimes would rather be anxious than be bored because if we make

ourselves anxious enough, then we have a problem to solve.

So today I want to talk about boredom.

What boredom is even, whether it is or isn't a problem, and how you can handle it.

So the first thing to know that is going to surprise you, some of you, is that boredom's

a thought.

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