Seems to state that drone / busy work is needed to come to more inspired stuff, and that automating it removes a pool for inspiration or something. Not sure if buys work is equal to dolce far niente, walking, somatic methods, rest, for inspiration.
Brooks, Arthur C. “Three Ways to Become a Deeper Thinker.” The Atlantic, November 21, 2024. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/11/sound-of-one-hand-clapping/680699/.
Experiencing boredom is crucial for abstract reasoning and insight, because it helps stimulate the brain’s default-mode network, the set of brain regions that becomes active when the outside world does not impinge on our mind’s attention. Neuroscientists have shown that such activity is vital for accessing high-level meaning.
In a deep cognitive sense, boredom is productive.
If an activity is both meaningful and engaging, you’re golden, and if it’s neither you’ve got a one-way ticket to dullsville.
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both factors—a dearth of meaning and a breakdown in attention—play independent and roughly equal roles in boring us.
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Lady Dedlock.Heidegger, one of the preeminent theorists of boredom,
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Erik Ringmar points out in his contribution to the “Boredom Studies Reader,” boredom often comes about when we are constrained to pay attention,
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In the past couple of decades, a whole field of boredom studies has flourished
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Leisure was one precondition: enough people had to be free of the demands of subsistence to have time on their hands that required filling.
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Results indicate that participants were more likely to interact with their smartphone the more fatigued or bored they were, but that they did not use it for longer when more fatigued or bored. Surprisingly, participants reported increased fatigue and boredom after having used the smartphone (more). While future research is necessary, our results (i) provide real-life evidence for the notion that fatigue and boredom are temporally associated with task disengagement, and (ii) suggest that taking a short break with the smartphone may have phenomenological costs.
We grab our phones when tired or bored at work. But it seems to make us more tired and more bored. Does the same apply for internetbrowsing before mobile?
All I know for sure is that they are trapped in the box.My solution for them: This isn’t working. Free yourself. Get out of this box. Putit away for another day and start a new box.
Don't get trapped in a particular project. Sometimes variety of projects can be just the medicine the doctor ordered. The zettelkasten method works, in part, because it makes it easier to work on things which inspire you while still knowing that you can slip away for a while, but still come back and find all your prior work there waiting for you. This is particularly useful even if you've forgotten that work.
Link this to examples of Luhmann and Ahren's descriptions of not becoming bored with their zettelkasten.
“Boredom serves a function,” she says now. “It’s boring, obviously, and we don’t like that, but, when you have no input coming in, you generate output. That’s how you become resourceful. But now you constantly have access to information, entertainment, distraction – all of this stuff coming in, coming in and coming in. And it doesn’t allow you the empty space to create something, or to just process something.
During periods of boredom wit no inputs, one will eventually fix the boredom by creating outputs. Being bored can nudge us to become creative and resourceful.
a desk, a chair, a pencil, some memos, some forms, an unending stream of tax returns in need of examination, and a clock.
Collecting objects, here in an act of boredom, removes them from their function.
Craig Dworkin wrotes Arcades in Zero Kerning: "What is decisive in collecting is that the object is detached from all its original functions in order to enter into the closest conceivable relation to things of the same kind. The relation is the diametric opposite of any utility, and falls into the peculiar category of completeness."
The act of collecting has the potential to transform objects into a function outside of everyday utility and monotony, and fulfill a spiritual need of completeness.
the boy patiently works away at twisting his joints and loosening the body’s grip on itself
Foster Wallace contrasts the boy's work here with working at the IRS. While both are impossible to complete, the boy's repetitive actions are working towards a spiritual goal: loosening the body's grip on itself.
Droit-Volet, S., Martinelli, N., Chevalère, J., Belletier, C., Dezecache, G., Gil, S., & Huguet, P. (2021). The Persistence of Slowed Time Experience During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Two Longitudinal Studies in France. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 3656. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.721716
One way is to work in intense, focused bursts. When the ideas stop flowing and diminishing returns set in, do something which is conducive to mind-wandering. Exercise, walk, read, or listen to music.
When mental fatigue sets it do something "boring" to let your mind rest and wander. Avoid escapism.
When our minds are free to wander, we shift into a diffuse mode of thinking. This is sometimes referred to as our natural mode of thinking, or the daydream mode; it’s when we form connections and subconsciously mull over problems.
Boredom is an important driver of ideas. Being disengaged from everything else leaves time to stay one-on-one with your thoughts.
Mike: I was almost there, and my AIMS... Everything I passed it except for the math. I passed all my AIMS exams. You know the test that you take at the end of the year, Stanford or AIMS or whatever they are?Anne: Yeah.Mike: I passed all of them except for my math. My senior year I actually passed it, but I didn't graduate. I just would go to school, literally eat lunch, just get out. It got boring for me and I was really good. I should have never started.Mike: I remember I was taking Japanese, I was taking English, social studies, a bunch of extra stuff just to try to advance my knowledge and stuff, but I don't know. Once you don't get that motivation and wants to stop, it sucks.
Time in the US, School, High School, Struggling/ Suspension/ Dropping out
Brosowsky, N., Tilburg, W. A. P. van, Scholer, A., Boylan, J., Dr Paul Seli, P. D., & Danckert, J. (2021). Boredom proneness, political orientation and adherence to social-distancing in the pandemic. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/maush
Westgate, Erin, Nick Buttrick, Yijun Lin, and Gaelle Milad El Helou. ‘Pandemic Boredom: Predicting Boredom and Its Consequences during Self-Isolation and Quarantine’. PsyArXiv, 11 May 2021. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/78kma.
Brodeur. A.., Clark. A. E., Fleche. S., Powdthavee. N. (2020). COVID-19, Lockdowns and Well-Being: Evidence from Google Trends. Institute of Labor Economics. Retrieved from: https://covid-19.iza.org/publications/dp13204/
We eventually hope to create affect-sensitive learning environments that respond constructively and effectively to boredom and confusion. When we do, we will have made significant progress towards improving students’ learning experiences, reducing problem behaviors such as gaming the system, managing students’ frustration and confusion in the face of impasses, and ultimately improving students’ learning.
Researchers studied students cognitive-affective states doing online learning in 3 separate, very different studies, among different student populations, ranging from 12-year-olds to college students. They found that, contrary to prior assumptions, frustration did not necessarily have negative learning outcomes. Boredom tended to last longest of the cognitive-affective states covered, led to the greatest attempts to game the system, and had the least successful learning outcomes. Confusion was sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful. Therefore, online learning environments should be developed that guard against boredom and perhaps confusion, rather than frustration. 8/10
Martarelli, C., Pacozzi, S., Bieleke, M., & Wolff, W. (2020, August 12). High trait self-control and low boredom proneness help COVID-19 homeschoolers. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z2avp
I’d get bored! I’d feel an urge to explore something new, or try a different angle. That’s the blessing and the curse of the polymath lifestyle. You’re always exploring, and rarely settling.
Dilema menjadi polymath adalah selalu menjelajah hal baru dan cepat bosan
Schwartze, M. M., Frenzel, A. C., Goetz, T., Marx, A. K. G., Reck, C., Pekrun, R., & Fiedler, D. (2020, July 6). Excessive Boredom Among Adolescents: A Comparison Between Low and High Achievers.
Danckert, J., Boylan, J., Seli, P., & Scholer, A. (2020). Boredom and rule breaking during COVID-19 [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ykuvg
Bieleke, M., Martarelli, C., & Wolff, W. (2020). Boredom makes it difficult, but it helps to have a plan: Investigating adherence to social distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/enzbv
Wolff, W., Martarelli, C., Schüler, J., & Bieleke, M. (2020, April 17). High boredom proneness and low trait self-control impair adherence to social distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jcf95
Hallford, D. J., & D'Argembeau, A. (2020, April 15). Why We Imagine Our Future: Introducing the Functions of Future Thinking Scale (FoFTS). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bez4u
Generateexcitement
Excitement can be hard to generate among students. How can this be done in non-forceful ways
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This is what Edgar Orrin Klapp meant when he wrote in his 1986 Overload and Boredom: Essays on the Quality of Life in the Information Society that “meaning and interest are found mostly in the mid-range between extremes of redundancy and variety-these extremes being called, respectively, banality and noise” (). Redundancy is repetition of the same, which creates a condition of insufficient difference, while noise is the chaos of non-referentiality, or entropy. In a way, these extremes collapse into each other, in that both can be viewed “as a loss of potential … for a certain line of action at least” ().
There is perhaps something of "the real" here, as well. Volker Woltersdorff (2012, 134) writes that: The law of increasing entropy is a concept of energy in the natural sciences that assumes the tendency of all systems to eventually reach their lowest level of energy. Organic systems therefore tend toward inertia … Freud identifies the death drive with entropy … within his theory, the economy of the death drive is to release tension."
Adam Phillips clarifies the death drive: “People are not, Freud seems to be saying, the saboteurs of their own lives, acting against their own best interests; they are simply dying in their own fashion (to describe someone as self-destructive is to assume a knowledge of what is good for them, an omniscient knowledge of the ‘real’ logic of their lives)” (2000, 81, cf. 77).
They have less patience for being bored.
Is there an assumption here that it's good to be bored?
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This is what Edgar Orrin Klapp meant when he wrote in his 1986 Overload and Boredom: Essays on the Quality of Life in the Information Society that “meaning and interest are found mostly in the mid-range between extremes of redundancy and variety-these extremes being called, respectively, banality and noise” (). Redundancy is repetition of the same, which creates a condition of insufficient difference, while noise is the chaos of non-referentiality, or entropy. In a way, these extremes collapse into each other, in that both can be viewed “as a loss of potential … for a certain line of action at least” ().
There is perhaps something of "the real" here, as well. Volker Woltersdorff (2012, 134) writes that: The law of increasing entropy is a concept of energy in the natural sciences that assumes the tendency of all systems to eventually reach their lowest level of energy. Organic systems therefore tend toward inertia … Freud identifies the death drive with entropy ... within his theory, the economy of the death drive is to release tension."
Adam Phillips clarifies the death drive: “People are not, Freud seems to be saying, the saboteurs of their own lives, acting against their own best interests; they are simply dying in their own fashion (to describe someone as self-destructive is to assume a knowledge of what is good for them, an omniscient knowledge of the ‘real’ logic of their lives)” (2000, 81, cf. 77).
the boy patiently works away at twisting his joints and loosening the body’s grip on itself
Foster Wallace contrasts the boy's work here with working at the IRS. While both are impossible to complete, the boy's repetitive actions are working towards a spiritual goal: loosening the body's grip on itself.
a desk, a chair, a pencil, some memos, some forms, an unending stream of tax returns in need of examination, and a clock.
Collecting objects, here in an act of boredom, removes them from their function.
Craig Dworkin wrotes Arcades in Zero Kerning: "What is decisive in collecting is that the object is detached from all its original functions in order to enter into the closest conceivable relation to things of the same kind. The relation is the diametric opposite of any utility, and falls into the peculiar category of completeness."
The act of collecting has the potential to transform objects into a function outside of everyday utility and monotony, and fulfill a spiritual need of completeness.
The Pedagogy of Boredom
Every hour you spend on Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, or in another feed that pushes entertainment onto you, you lose some of that ability to go out and entertain yourself.
This is a huge loss...
The study reveals—“boredom,” “experimentation,” and “insight”—are reasons for use related to increased and decreased risk of use of other drugs.
This study shows that teens use drugs for three reasons: BOREDOM: meaning people use drugs because they are bored. EXPERIMENTATION: people use drugs to experiment about it. INSIGHT: it makes teens understand more.
I think this is important because when teens are bored some teens use drugs. I agree and this connects to me because marijuana does make me want to experiment more and actually make me understand or have a argument in things i do. although when boredom strikes it helps motivates more.