How I Stopped Fearing Boredom

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• 00:06

  Pushkin, there's one trait that my mom and I have in common.

• 00:15

  Can you hear me now?

• 00:16

  Yes, I can see you, too.

• 00:18

  Okay, wait a minute.

• 00:19

  Let me put the TV off.

• 00:21

  So this is for a whole podcast season that we're doing on stuff that I'm bad at.

• 00:25

  Okay.

• 00:25

  This is a whole episode about boredom because I feel like I'm pretty bad at boredom.

• 00:30

  You are.

• 00:31

  The 17th century French philosopher Blaise Pascal was convinced that he knew the single greatest challenge facing our species.

• 00:38

  All of humanity's problems, he said, stem from man's inability to sit down quietly in a room alone.

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  Blaise Pascal was lucky he didn't meet me or my mom, but I feel.

• 00:48

  Like I'm bad at boredom because you're bad at boredom.

• 00:51

  Yeah.

• 00:51

  No, I didn't do well with doing nothing, as a matter of fact, waiting for you.

• 00:55

  If I went and made a puzzle, I couldn't just sit and wait for you to call back.

• 00:58

  I don't know if it's heredity or just learned behavior, but I got it from you.

• 01:03

  Yeah, it's one of the many wonderful things you got from your mother.

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  Psychologists define boredom as a transient, unpleasant affective state in which an individual feels a pervasive lack of interest, such that it takes pained, conscious effort to attend to an activity.

• 01:18

  But you may not need a professional to tell you how dreadful boredom is.

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