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Why Is Everyone So Boring?
A ‘boring person’ is merely someone lacking the courage to be sufficiently in touch with the more troubled visceral parts of themselves.
The School of Life • The School of Life: Quotes to Live By: A collection to revive and inspire
When you live somewhere boring — and we all live somewhere boring — then we have a choice about the way we will see that place. We can spend our days thinking like everyone else, seeing the same things over and over, and never once wondering about how they got that way, or why they stayed that way, or how they could be better. Or, we can learn. And
... See moreIan Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
Boredom, in other words, is not a neutral emotion. It is an emotion related to silencing and avoidance, regulating what can be discussed and defending against more difficult emotions like guilt and anger.
Chana Teeger • What Does Boredom Teach Us About How We Engage with History? - By Chana Teeger - Behavioral Scientist
Life has gotten very chaotic incredibly quickly. It has become increasingly difficult to parse anything from the static. People started coping with this lack of meaning through a kind of ironic detachment (which is very much still around), but it has matured into a pervasive cultural apathy, a permeating numbness. This isn’t nihilism per se. (Even ... See more