Why We Should Embrace Boredom
Five takeaways:
- Many studies show that the constant tide of information and “pings” from our phones and devices tend to detract from the brain’s capacity for focused and creative thought.
- In a country where 87% of teenagers have smartphones, young people are particularly susceptible to habit-forming and dependency-forming relationships with their phones.
- A study by the Academy of Management Discoveries showed that when one group was kept bored/unstimulated and another given an intensive task to perform, when asked to perform a subsequent task of making up a hypothetical excuse for lateness, the group that had been left bored/unstimulated showed far more creativity in their answers.
- The Child Mind Institute notes that boredom can help children learn flexibility, problem-solving, and planning.
- Like many habits, embracing boredom can be tough at first. But resisting the urge to grab your phone the second you feel bored can reopen your perception to so much more in-depth, trenchant insight about the world./li>
From Erica Pandey for Axios
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