Thanks for doing this! I'm wondering if there's a distinction made between different types of boredom? I feel like there's a restless, creative kind of boredom that I really associate with childhood - that sorta rainy day boredom where you invent new games, make weird stuff, walk around the yard looking for bugs, whatever. And then there's the rather bleak kind of boredom where you know there are a bunch of things you could do but you somehow don't really feel like doing any of them.
Do you feel these two flavors of boredom are entirely different phenomena, or just to do with energy, mood etc? And as a sorta tangential question, do you feel the amount of entertainment and distractions we have available might be an obstacle to that first type of "creative" boredom?
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Thanks for doing this! I'm wondering if there's a distinction made between different types of boredom? I feel like there's a restless, creative kind of boredom that I really associate with childhood - that sorta rainy day boredom where you invent new games, make weird stuff, walk around the yard looking for bugs, whatever. And then there's the rather bleak kind of boredom where you know there are a bunch of things you could do but you somehow don't really feel like doing any of them.
Do you feel these two flavors of boredom are entirely different phenomena, or just to do with energy, mood etc? And as a sorta tangential question, do you feel the amount of entertainment and distractions we have available might be an obstacle to that first type of "creative" boredom?
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