
Out of My Skull
The Psychology of Boredom
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Liam Gerrard
We avoid boredom at all costs. It makes us feel restless and agitated. Desperate for something to do, we play games on our phones, retie our shoes, or even count ceiling tiles. And if we escape it this time, eventually it will strike again. But what if we listened to boredom instead of banishing it? Psychologists James Danckert and John Eastwood contend that boredom isn't bad for us. It's just that we do a bad job of heeding its guidance.
When we're bored, our minds are telling us that whatever we are doing isn't working - we're failing to satisfy our basic psychological need to be engaged and effective. Too many of us respond poorly. We become prone to accidents, risky activities, loneliness, and ennui, and we waste ever more time on technological distractions. But, Danckert and Eastwood argue, we can let boredom have the opposite effect, motivating the change we need. The latest research suggests that an adaptive approach to boredom will help us avoid its troubling effects and, through its reminder to become aware and involved, boredom might lead us to live fuller lives.
Out of My Skull combines scientific findings with everyday observations to explain an experience we'd like to ignore, but from which we have a lot to learn. Boredom evolved to help us. It's time we gave it a chance.
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Excellent
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great!
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Excellent exposition
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Ironically SUPER Interesting!
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Couldn’t relate more
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I guess I finally got tired of boredom and the topic truly was important to me :d
also once again a reminder to myself in this book how important mindfulness can be. although my mind has a love/hate/fear relationship with meditation
an important topic in the future to come
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And for the first half, it was actually actually a decent read and referenced some research that I hadn't already encountered in a million other pop psych books. But then defaulted to the usual Good-Housekeeping-Article style of basic, vanilla, uninsightful treatment of its material.
Missed opportunities to look at truly what we are experiencing when we BELIEVE we are bored - it's usually a cocktail of other emotions that arise in response to some belief that "this situation is lacking in some way."
My interest truly bottomed in the chapter that discussed the same old pros and cons of the internet existing: "while it's great that you can communicate with people far away, the downsides might be..." C'mon guys. The internet's been around for almost 30 years now, we've all heard these dull generalizations. Is that all you got?
The authors maybe should've considered the fact that the people reading the book would be boredom-prone (I am one such human) and maybe more needs to be offered to grab and hold their attention.
Ironically...on the boring side
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Repeats the same points 100 times. We get it - bad things happen when you're bored. You don't need to say it 1000 more times.
But the worst part is that the book offers zero useful advice on how to solve the problem, except a few sentences at the end of the conclusions with some generic advice. What a joke.
Pass on this one folks.
Talk about boring
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