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Boredom is not having anything interesting to do. As a kid most of my best discoveries and creativity were during boredom, when I went out of my way to try som
by Razengan 7y ago
Boredom is not having anything interesting to do.
As a kid most of my best discoveries and creativity were during boredom, when I went out of my way to try something new (or old, that I had not tried before) or occupied myself with whatever was at hand.
As an adult, during boredom I just try to find some kind of social interaction or go to sleep.
- teekert 7y agoI just reach for my phone.
- crispinb 7y agoBoredom is not having anything interesting to do Not true of everyone.
- Razengan 7y agoHow else would you define it? By "interesting" I mean "interesting to you"
- crispinb 7y agoAll I need to show the identity you claim 'is not true of everyone' is to find a single person for whom it isn't true. I am that person, so I've proven it not to be true. I am extremely rarely bored. Certainly "not having anything interesting to do" doesn't generate boredom in me. I am quite content with nothing to do at all (let alone something interesting). Granted this is unusual (though very far from unique).
- burntoutfire 7y agoYou need to be bored AND energetic (or at least lucid) to engage in creativity. Adults give most of their energy to their employers, hence it's no wonder that, in the downtime, little creativity happens. More than one famous author mentioned that during their periods of full-time employment they had no ideas or motivation, they were just barren.
- non-entity 7y agoThat would explain a lot, as I rarely have energy at all.
- shrimp_emoji 7y agoDon't children also have more energy than adults, generally (physically and psychologically)?
- Razengan 7y agoIt doesn't help that employment contracts in today's dystopia don't even allow one to be creative even in their spare time, as recently highlighted by popular cases.
- autotune 7y agoAs a kid I had 0 freedom to do anything due to lack of money, space, and privacy. As an adult I dive deep into my hobbies outside of work, specifically music, and refuse to let down the inner kid by being uninteresting or not fighting for work/life balance.
- Razengan 7y ago> As a kid I had 0 freedom to do anything due to lack of money, space, and privacy. It was mostly the same for me, but I had a computer, which to me felt like infinite freedom.
- m463 7y agoIt's almost too bad that boredome is so easily relieved in this modern internet-connected society. like this comment I'm typing.