As I've gotten older, not only has the idea of being bored evaporated, but the idea of other people feeling bored is borderline offensive. As long as we're bat

As I've gotten older, not only has the idea of being bored evaporated, but the idea of other people feeling bored is borderline offensive. As long as we're batting the n=1 ball back and forth, I have the opposite reaction to you. When I was young and an arrogant go-getter, I found the idea of other people being bored, or unproductive, or non-curious to be offensive. Sometimes I was tactful about it, but that's how I felt, especially when I was consuming a large diet of hagiographies describing successful people as burning the entire candle factory, not just burning the candle at both ends. Then I obtained two important and (for me) correlated things: Life experience. And empathy. The former has shown me that I was the outlier. The latter has shown me that these are good and worthy people, they're just good and worthy in ways that my former Cult of Productivity does not value. And even if I am still interested in productivity and so forth, empathy has helped me see them as they are without judging them.