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Retirement is supposed to be the golden years, right? That carefree phase where mornings start with coffee on the porch instead of alarm clocks, where hobbies finally get attention, and money worries ...

Though neuroscience suggests that boredom can be good for us, we all try to avoid it. Even the most exciting jobs in the world—astronaut, nuclear engineer, helicopter pilot, virus hunter—can be filled ...

At any hour of the day or night, we can be entertained. Simply pick up your phone and there is endless content to consume, videos to watch, articles to read, apps to download, wormholes to discover.

Before long I felt like an exposed nerve, taking in all of New York City's stimuli at once without any buffer.

Boredom is usually seen as something to avoid, but researchers are finding it may be essential for the brain. When the mind isn’t constantly stimulated, it can reset, process emotions, and form deeper ...

Millennial parents of today’s generation of kids grew up in a unique, budding world of technology, which also coexisted during a time of pure, organically created boredom. It was a time when weekend ...

Experts say the sustenance parallel is apt: Boredom functions like pain or thirst, signaling us that something needs to change. But the theory that boredom spawns creativity turns out to have “pretty ...

If you’re looking for some websites to bust your boredom you’ve come to the right place. Here we give you two websites that ...

Don’t judge a person until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes. Wise advice; but not so easy to do. How can we enter into the lived experience of another person—how can we think their thoughts and ...