The boredom of playgrounds. The boredom of picture books. The boredom of Cheerios, pasta, peanut butter, and Goldfish. The ...

Boredom is inextricable from a meaningful life.

At any hour of the day or night, we can be entertained. Simply pick up your phone and there is endless content to consume, videos to watch, articles to read, apps to download, wormholes to discover.

Boredom is prone to myth-making — much like the story of Phineas Gage. This matters. If we believe certain myths about ...

Though neuroscience suggests that boredom can be good for us, we all try to avoid it. Even the most exciting jobs in the world—astronaut, nuclear engineer, helicopter pilot, virus hunter—can be filled ...

Envy, boredom and other unpleasant emotions have value that can be too easily overlooked.

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 ...

It’s just four hours into a calm, lazy Saturday morning, and I feel a kid tugging at my sweats. “Mom, I’m bored.” Seriously? You haven’t been home for more than a few waking hours in the last week ...

We have all experienced boredom—that feeling of waning interest or decreased mental stimulation. Eventually we lose focus, we disengage. Time seems to pass slowly, and we may even start to feel ...

A world of entertainment and information sits at our fingertips. Our phones can quickly fill those quiet and sometimes dull moments. But maybe there are better options. Why do we get bored? How should ...

Don’t judge a person until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Wise advice; but not so easy to do. How can we enter into the lived experience of another person—how can we think their thoughts and ...