77. How Can You Avoid Boredom?

No Stupid Questions

社会与文化

2021-12-12

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Also: are we getting any better at assessing COVID risk?
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  • Don't even finish the sentence.

  • I'm Angela Duckworth.

  • I'm Stephen Dubner, and you're listening to.

  • No stupid questions today on the show.

  • What can you do to make boring tasks less tedious?

  • I quit.

  • I'm not going to pay taxes this year.

  • Also, are people overreacting about the risk.

  • That Covid presents to kids left, right, center, children everywhere?

  • How do they get here?

  • I don't know.

  • Angela.

  • I realized something about myself recently.

  • It's fairly troubling, and I'd like to run it past you, see if you can fix me, because you're good at that.

  • No problem.

  • I am often in a rush to get things done, and it's not a good feeling.

  • It means that whatever I'm doing won't be done as well as it maybe ought to be done.

  • But what I realized is that I only rush through things that bore me.

  • Like what?

  • It could be a task, like paperwork or bill paying, but it's not just really prima facie boring stuff.