Boredom Explained (Scientifically)

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[Cnb]

Wow super interesting! It’s so difficult finding a balance between our natural desire for certainty/comfort that comes with having a routine and then also knowing when it’s time to switch something up and make things feel a bit more exciting. Awesome video

[TastyPapaya]

One thing you discover, when you learn how to meditate,
is that boredom is just, an inability to pay attention to anything.
And once you learn to pay attention to anything, even
something as seemingly boring as your breath. It suddenly
becomes incredibly interesting. So focused attention is
intrinsically pleasurable, but boredom is the state of scattered
attention looking for something worth paying attention to.

Just to take this example of one interesting insight you get,
when you learn to meditate. It's incredible powerful to cut
through the illusion of boredom, i mean, to realise that
boredom is not something. You can become interested in
the feeling of boredom, and the moment you do, it bites it's
own tail and disappears. There is no such thing as boredom,
when you're paying close attention to your experience.

[redhidinghood]

I've been reading about boredom (amongst other psychology-related things) for the past few days and you summed it all up very nicely and in an easy to understand way. Your videos are true gems in the psychology community, thank you for making them

[giesi]

Do you have citations for the connection between boredom and dopamine that you talk about at the beginning of the video as well? I would be really interested in that.

[walterpriceletsgo]

I get bored very much and when I tried to play a video game I usually play and all of the sudden I get bored of it . I question why

[thaboshikwambane]

This was amazing. Didn’t expect this to be so dopamining. Wow

[gg]

Thank you for this video! I really needed that perspective change

[SilverBullet]

I didn't get bored listening to you !

[salima]

Thank you for explaining it so simple, this video was very enternaing to watch ESPACALLILY since ive been more into dopamine the last 2 months.

[muskandugar]

Very interesting! Would be curious to know why we still keep going back to our phones and the role dopamine plays here

[lizzalkula]

That was super interesting. Especially as I have begun to complain to friends that my current job now is *SO BORING* (( I am a store shopper now -- we walk around and collect the items that people buy online and put them into the containers and get them ready for the customers to pick up later. As opposed to the slightly over a decade where I was a front end supervisor where I supervised cashiers, helped and interacted with varies customers and their problems and maintained the registers as well as helped clean up the front of the store and helped stock later in my day to help my shift-mates)).

I told a friend that I have tried to give myself little self-made projects but in seven months I have either met or surpassed or at the moment *can't* possibly meet or surpass (due to operating procedures).

I am so bored.

(( side question: if you eating the same thing every single day can make it boring -- even if it's something that is technically high rewarding -- as our brain seems to think that anything high in calories and sugar is highly rewarding -- can we convince our brains that the item will be boring??
If I see something I love to eat like.... a piece of chocolate candy then no matter if it's an eight out of ten or a ten out of ten, if I love the food I'm still going to enjoy it enough that it won't be boring. But if I eat it one day and before or during tell myself 'okay this was okay... it was a 9 out of 10. No no... it was only a 9 out of 10.... you've had X before and now THAT was really good but this... it's okay" basically can I (or anyone else) convince myself it's boring? ))

[vanyagangwar]

Great video, explains why I feel better and perform more productively at work post a vacation, as it allows me to break a routine. Perhaps work places should allow more vacation time to employees hence?

[ValiantMike]

You definitely got yourself a subscriber here! Nice way of explaining it and good video quality in general. Keep it up! :)

[himalayaherb]

Multiplayer games are not so boring because there's always a challenge and it's the hunt not the kill

[hapichteam]

nothing new google info. waste of time