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/.

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• 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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adjacency - between - boredom - insight - history - modernity - Adjacency statement - This is an insightful observation that - the affordances of a technologically sophisticated modernity - promotes boredom by providing a means to escape it, - rather than deal with it. - The notable decline of religiosity in the West also cuts off a traditional means of getting in touch with the wonder of existence - This could explain the tiffin popularity of meditation in the West as a non religious vehicle for centering in the here and now, - as boredom is a condition of avoiding the here and now

• Leisure was one precondition:
  • enough people had to be free of the demands of subsistence
  • to have time on their hands that required filling.
• Modern capitalism multiplied amusements and consumables,
• while undermining spiritual sources of meaning
• that had once been conferred more or less automatically.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

When mental fatigue sets it do something "boring" to let your mind rest and wander. Avoid escapism.

Boredom is an important driver of ideas. Being disengaged from everything else leaves time to stay one-on-one with your thoughts.

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/

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

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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

Excitement can be hard to generate among students. How can this be done in non-forceful ways

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).

Is there an assumption here that it's good to be bored?

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).

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.

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.

This is a huge loss...

Related Link: Kierkegaard on the Information Highway

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.