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the brain's check-engine light, blinking until you finally drive somewhere new.
means The dull, restless state of having nothing engaging to do, where time seems to drag and the mind craves stimulation it isn't getting.
from Surprisingly young: 'bore' as a verb meaning 'to weary by tedium' surfaces in English in the 18th century, origin uncertain — possibly figurative from 'bore' meaning to drill a hole, as if dullness slowly drilled into you. 'Boredom' itself is a 19th-century formation, famously used by Dickens in 'Bleak House,' stitching the verb to the suffix '-dom' (the same one in 'kingdom' and 'freedom') to name it as a whole state or condition — a little realm you can get trapped in.
- creativity engine
- Studies link boredom to sharper problem-solving afterward
- deadly precise
- Chronic boredom correlates with higher early-death risk
- name's young
- The word 'boredom' first appeared in 1852
- animals feel it
- Bored caged minks pace and grow lethargic
- meaning hunt
- It nudges humans toward goals worth chasing
waiting for godot — samuel beckett's 1953 play where nothing happens and characters wait purposelessly
the paint drying challenge — 2016 bbc broadcast of paint drying for 10 hours that attracted 2.7 million viewers
andy warhol's sleep — 1964 film of poet john giorno sleeping for 5 hours and 20 minutes