Tag: boredom
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Big spike of traffic to my post about making a goal to get bored more often. Boredom is more important than ever.
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My 2026 goal is to be bored more often
What do you do with your time? I think the modern world has afforded us all more time than we know what to do with and we’re squandering it. I know this isn’t true for everyone, and certainly not true of people everywhere, but many of us live in a time of abundance and we’re
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I’ve uninstalled all social network apps from my phone; including Ivory for Mastodon. I’m really trying to force myself into boredom. To allow my mind to wander. And force-feeding myself information (even good, high quality information) is stifling my mind’s ability to wander.
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Manuel Moreale on silence
Manuel Moreale, who is purposefully taking in far less information during the month of June, mentions this about the silent periods that he used to fill in with podcasts: First couple of days I could see my brain wanting to fill the silence with something but that was mostly out of habit more than anything.
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Craig Mod on boredom
Craig Mod, writing for Literary Hub: When I’m not talking, just walking (which is most of the time), I try to cultivate the most bored state of mind imaginable. A total void of stimulation beyond the immediate environment. My rules: No news, no social media, no podcasts, no music. No “teleporting,” you could say. The
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Creatively bored
Filmosaur*: Sure, I took a few photos here and there, but there’s no real creativity, no real meaning. Perhaps an occasional photo managed to capture something more than an utterly prosaic image, but it feels accidental rather than deliberate. So rather than bore others – again, a Very Bad Thing in my weltanshauung – I just didn’t