You Need to Be Bored. Here’s Why.

Here’s a short video by Arthur Brooks (that you are probably watching on your phone) about why you should log off, put your phone down, and let yourself be bored.

You need to be bored. You will have less meaning and you will be more depressed if you never are bored. I mean, it couldn’t be clearer.

See also In Praise of Boredom, In Defense of Boredom, and “Boredom: the great engine of creativity”.

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