The Urgent Case for Boredom
Boredom is a relatively new human feeling — and it’s endangered
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8 min readJun 19, 2019
Stop what you’re doing for a minute, and try to remember the last time you let yourself be bored. Not “phone bored” — the Generation Z weariness that stems from digital overload — but bored bored, the tedium of too little stimulation. When did you last surrender to that restive feeling, the kind that waits at…
