You’re bound to get bored - and your brain, mood and work performance just might improve.
Next time you find yourself in line at the grocery store, in a tedious meeting or killing time in a waiting room, resist the urge to scroll. “Our tolerance for boredom just changes completely, and we need more and more to stop being bored.” “We’re trying to swipe and scroll the boredom away, but in doing that, we’re actually making ourselves more prone to boredom, because every time we get our phone out we’re not allowing our mind to wander and to solve our own boredom problems,” Mann says, adding that people can become addicted to the constant dopamine hit of new and novel content that phones provide. Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. Our cultural attachment to our phones, she says, is paradoxically both destroying our ability to be bored, and preventing us from ever being truly entertained. My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that Im right. It’s also crucial to unplug during this time, Mann says. Comments on: 'Peter Senge Quotes: People don’t resist change as much as the way they are changed. To tap into true boredom, she suggests picking an activity that requires little or no concentration - like walking a familiar route, swimming laps or even just sitting with your eyes closed - and simply letting your mind wander, without music or stimulation to guide it. A purposefully tranquil activity, such as yoga or meditation, likely doesn’t meet the definition of trying and failing to find stimulation. Mann says it’s important not to conflate boredom with relaxation.
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