> which is why children tend to get bored much more quickly than adults, because waiting for ten minutes constitutes a much larger percentage of their current e

> which is why children tend to get bored much more quickly than adults, because waiting for ten minutes constitutes a much larger percentage of their current experienced life compared to that of an adult's proportion I think boredom is the brain's hunger more than its watch. It's about the needs of a developing brain, rather than plain time. Right after the bulk of neurogenesis the brain goes into synaptic pruning where it strengthens some synapses and eliminates others. Developmental pruning is experience dependent and the scale of the process in childhood needs a lot of experiences to fuel it. Those experiences are literal "food for thought". Building the body takes more food, building the brain takes more experiences.