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boredom ~ (healthily unpleasant) response to the lack of needed external stimulation, process that starts searching for what’s interesting.
things to revisit
- 🔖 mind wandering
- rest ≠ distraction
- often huge amount of constant intellectual stimulation
- 🔖 mental quiet
- being bored BEFORE creating VS switching instantly from another (intellectual) process³
knowledge to reach for
boredom is
- fuel for creativity³
- catalyst of the process of acquiring self-knoweldge
- recoverable skill
- “empty space” is not empty
- BUT focus of physical symptoms that were suppressed (like w/ having chronic pain or being ill), rumination might resurface in the process²
quiet space
- walk w/ nothing
- sit w/ nothing
- acknowledgement of automatically reaching for distraction
references
- that red haired guy video about boredom
- that video of the person w/ chronic pain
- that research i need to find again about the experiment with creative tasks