Quarantine Could Fix Our Broken Brains

Being bored at home is showing us how to reject hustle culture

Joe Fassler
Forge
Published in
10 min readApr 8, 2020

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AA few short months ago, I wrote a piece for Forge recommending that we rediscover the value of boredom in an age dominated by screens and the attention economy. “We may be stressed out, distracted, and overworked, plagued by eye strain and brain fog — but we’re not bored,” I wrote. “In 2019…

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Joe Fassler
Forge
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Joe Fassler is author of The Sky Was Ours and Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process. More at http://joefassler.net