{"id":3714,"date":"2020-04-27T14:25:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T13:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tib.ambercouch.co.uk\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2022-02-21T16:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T16:23:04","slug":"the-benefits-of-boredom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkinthebay.co.uk\/the-benefits-of-boredom-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The benefits of boredom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-1ar6tr2-10d8786672bbc9732f284e555d91def7 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-3714'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" 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data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-13at9e6-8b67653571ca69416a1673807322491e\">\n.flex_column.av-13at9e6-8b67653571ca69416a1673807322491e{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-13at9e6-8b67653571ca69416a1673807322491e av_one_full  avia-builder-el-5  el_before_av_three_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-k9ibqzx3-cd9d69ff57e2f17cb68eb82dc613fe1c\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-k9ibqzx3-cd9d69ff57e2f17cb68eb82dc613fe1c{\npadding-bottom:0;\ncolor:#2c5c88;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-k9ibqzx3-cd9d69ff57e2f17cb68eb82dc613fe1c .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-k9ibqzx3-cd9d69ff57e2f17cb68eb82dc613fe1c 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Boredom: How to Stop Distracting Yourself and Get Creative Ideas Again. (in Creativity, Neuroscience, Psychology | 7 November 2019 at openculture.com)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the author examines <strong>how modern day on demand distractions have possibly led to an eradication of boredom<\/strong>. If we\u2019ve got a few minutes to wait for a train, or need to queue at the post office, then we no longer just stand and wait; we whip out our mobile phones, check emails, have a quick browse, play a game, listen to music. Anything other than just wait patiently. Going for a walk or a run, cycling or exercising? Get the headphones on and listen to music or a podcast. There is always someone or something there on our screens, in our headphones. Selfies, gossip, advertisements, news, songs. Sensory overload at any available moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The article suggests that all these distractions are not just stifling creativity, but also not allowing our minds to wander, to collect our thoughts, or even to communicate with other people, in real life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s like we have developed such a fear of boredom that as soon as we have a free minute, we automatically reach for something to do, or read, or listen to. This of course is nothing new. Children have always complained when they are bored. The tedium of long car journeys; the \u2018are we there yet?\u2019 pleas from the kids. As far back as 1911, the poet W H Davies penned the poem, Leisure, which has the lines:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"avia-testimonial-content \"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-13at9e6-8b67653571ca69416a1673807322491e\">\n.flex_column.av-13at9e6-8b67653571ca69416a1673807322491e{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-13at9e6-8b67653571ca69416a1673807322491e av_three_fourth  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_fourth  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-xn5ihq-470a342952b2902bf260f262ee68dbca'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A poor life this if, full of care,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have no time to stand and stare.&#8221;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-4cakvm-75d84d671fa8432c25d598dd664962bd\">\n.flex_column.av-4cakvm-75d84d671fa8432c25d598dd664962bd{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-4cakvm-75d84d671fa8432c25d598dd664962bd av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_three_fourth  el_before_av_textblock  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding column-top-margin'     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-k9igmgoo-427778b695e23becbd64ed27f8a3ba4f\">\n#top .avia-testimonial-wrapper.av-k9igmgoo-427778b695e23becbd64ed27f8a3ba4f .avia-testimonial-content{\ncolor:#7da2b3;\n}\n.avia-testimonial-wrapper.av-k9igmgoo-427778b695e23becbd64ed27f8a3ba4f .avia-slideshow-controls{\ncolor:#7da2b3;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-testimonial-wrapper av-k9igmgoo-427778b695e23becbd64ed27f8a3ba4f avia-grid-testimonials avia-grid-2-testimonials avia_animate_when_almost_visible' >\n<section class=\"avia-testimonial-row\"><div class='avia-testimonial av-378baa-5326b565931d38881d98625defe40bb5 avia-testimonial-row-1 avia-first-testimonial flex_column no_margin av_one_half'><div class='avia-testimonial_inner'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia-testimonial-content av_inherit_color'><div class='avia-testimonial-markup-entry-content'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The exaggerated or irrational fear of boredom has even got its own name \u2013 <strong>thaasophobia<\/strong> &#8211; the fear of sitting still, being idle<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"avia-testimonial-meta\"><div class=\"avia-testimonial-arrow-wrap\"><div class=\"avia-arrow\"><\/div><\/div><div class='avia-testimonial-meta-mini'  itemprop=\"author\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div><\/div><section  class='av_textblock_section av-xn5ihq-470a342952b2902bf260f262ee68dbca'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allegedly, W H Davies meant this as a warning how modern life can affect how we live in the world around us. So, little has changed in that respect, but perhaps nowadays there are so many more distractions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So maybe what we perceive to be boring episodes could become productive, especially now when so many of us are isolated at home during lockdown. We can try and learn to use the silent spaces and the long journeys to our benefit. To allow ourselves time to think, to ponder, to let thoughts into our minds. In the above-mentioned article, psychologist Sandi Mann says that, \u201conce you start daydreaming and allow your mind to really wander, you start thinking a little bit beyond the conscious, a little bit into the subconscious, which allows sort of different connections to take place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>To find creativity in ourselves is to find joy. That creative part of us that did that sketch by the river, the delicious meal we cooked, the poem we wrote, the scarf we knitted. Everyone can create something. Even a kind thought or deed is a creative act. And it will certainly make us smile, or feel good about ourselves, and others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"avia-testimonial-content \"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<div  class='hr av-irqlvy-38010ffd506c85758901d682b36a94fd hr-default  avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-h341cu-c9d2d70b4f2a4aa794d4fef59431f692'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h4><strong><span style=\"color: #2c5c88;\">Authors: Joan Ryan | Talk In The Bay <\/span><span style=\"color: #2c5c88;\">|\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #2c5c88;\">Since 2008<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-f4io5q-1ca6656de771e7bb5d35fdf12b3fb15f\">\n#top .hr.av-f4io5q-1ca6656de771e7bb5d35fdf12b3fb15f{\nmargin-top:15px;\nmargin-bottom:15px;\n}\n.hr.av-f4io5q-1ca6656de771e7bb5d35fdf12b3fb15f .hr-inner{\nwidth:100px;\nborder-color:#2c5c88;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-f4io5q-1ca6656de771e7bb5d35fdf12b3fb15f hr-custom  avia-builder-el-15  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_social_share  hr-left hr-icon-no'><span class='hr-inner inner-border-av-border-thin'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div  class='av-social-sharing-box av-e32xn2-b8718b7534cbfa0ac95f183760763425 av-social-sharing-box-default  avia-builder-el-16  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last  av-social-sharing-box-fullwidth'><div class=\"av-share-box\"><h5 class='av-share-link-description av-no-toc '>SHARE THIS BLOG POST<\/h5><ul class=\"av-share-box-list noLightbox\"><li class='av-share-link av-social-link-facebook' ><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Share on Facebook\" href='https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/talkinthebay.co.uk\/the-benefits-of-boredom-2\/&#038;t=The%20benefits%20of%20boredom' aria-hidden='false' data-av_icon='\ue8f3' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' title='' data-avia-related-tooltip='Share on Facebook' rel=\"noopener\"><span class='avia_hidden_link_text'>Share on Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class='av-share-link av-social-link-twitter' ><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Share on Twitter\" href='https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=The%20benefits%20of%20boredom&#038;url=https:\/\/talkinthebay.co.uk\/?p=3714' aria-hidden='false' data-av_icon='\ue8f1' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' title='' data-avia-related-tooltip='Share on Twitter' rel=\"noopener\"><span class='avia_hidden_link_text'>Share on Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class='av-share-link av-social-link-whatsapp' ><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Share on WhatsApp\" href='https:\/\/api.whatsapp.com\/send?text=https:\/\/talkinthebay.co.uk\/the-benefits-of-boredom-2\/' aria-hidden='false' data-av_icon='\uf232' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' title='' data-avia-related-tooltip='Share on WhatsApp' rel=\"noopener\"><span class='avia_hidden_link_text'>Share on WhatsApp<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class='av-share-link av-social-link-linkedin' ><a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Share on LinkedIn\" href='https:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&#038;title=The%20benefits%20of%20boredom&#038;url=https:\/\/talkinthebay.co.uk\/the-benefits-of-boredom-2\/' aria-hidden='false' data-av_icon='\ue8fc' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' title='' data-avia-related-tooltip='Share on LinkedIn' rel=\"noopener\"><span class='avia_hidden_link_text'>Share on LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class='av-share-link av-social-link-mail' ><a  aria-label=\"Share by Mail\" href='mailto:?subject=The%20benefits%20of%20boredom&#038;body=https:\/\/talkinthebay.co.uk\/the-benefits-of-boredom-2\/' aria-hidden='false' data-av_icon='\ue805' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello' title='' data-avia-related-tooltip='Share by Mail'><span class='avia_hidden_link_text'>Share by Mail<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_2'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-3714'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,227,248,230,251,231,256,232,233,234,237,10,239,242,243],"tags":[103,18,102],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - 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