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Boredom is an emotion or signal that lets you know that you are doing something that doesn’t give you satisfaction. Boredom could tell you two things: that you are not fully present and engaged in ...

Someone announces boredom, and we barely notice. It’s a phrase used so frequently by friends, loved ones, or strangers that it barely registers. What kind of boredom is it? A call for help? An ...

If you’re old enough to remember a time before the internet, you probably also remember periods of intense boredom. Without electronic distractions, kids were forced to entertain themselves by ...

Long before summer camps were booked months in advance and kids had schedules rivaling adults, summer meant something different. It was a time of empty afternoons, unstructured exploration, and simple ...

The old phrase “I’m so bored, I could die!” is considered an exaggeration for a reason. It’s very unlikely that you could die from having one boring day. But while being bored once in a while won’t ...

Daniel Hermens receives funding from the Commonwealth government's Prioritising Mental Health Initiative and the Queensland Mental Health Commission. Michelle Kennedy does not work for, consult, own ...

If you’re waiting for brilliance to strike, try getting bored first. That’s the takeaway of a study published recently in the journal Academy of Management Discoveries, which found that boredom can ...

Experts say the sustenance parallel is apt: Boredom functions like pain or thirst, signaling us that something needs to change. But the theory that boredom spawns creativity turns out to have “pretty ...