Is Boredom Good for Your Brain?

Feeling creatively stuck? Or just can't figure out how to solve a problem? Maybe your brain needs a little bit of boredom.

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Intro - 0:00
What is boredom - 1:38
Boredom in the brain - 2:10
Cons of boredom - 4:22
Boredom and creativity - 6:25
Mind wandering vs Mindfulness - 8:13
Summary - 10:14

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[maddymiller]

Hi my name is maddy I lost my job and everything. Like your video being home I do house work but my daughter who whas adopted she things don't love all I keep thing about the massage I am sick of everything at the min I am bored life xxx amazing video

[neginm]

Thanks, 😊, so helpful.I like your videos because they're based on reality and science.

[anaclaudiasalasz.]

Hi nice video ... I would like to add that this kind of feeling is more usual now with the lockdown
I believe that our situation (social privation for example) promote this state and I am tired of that 😞

Sorry for my bad English ... It's not my first language 😔

[silviapabon]

I know about flow states and active recovery... the trait boredom is really interesting to me... to coupe whit frustration...· I felt frustrated and impotent....lets get bored in a left frontal brain way"

[Drbilalmd]

I want to do PhD in Neurology
I have master degree in neuroscience

[silviapabon]

if I dont feel some levels of trait boredom..the "unable uncomfortable state"....I would be resting and not bored? ....

[queuing_jupiter]

What uni did you do your undergraduate degree? Ps are you from liverpool?x What Alevel subjects did you do?x