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Urges people to stop the 'doom loop' of checking phone apps
Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks explains in a Harvard Business Review video why boredom is essential for reflecting on life. | YouTube/Harvard Business Review
Boredom can play a crucial role in the human experience, according to Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks, who warns in a recent Harvard Business Review videothat avoiding boredom can prevent people from asking deeper questions about life and lead to anxiety and depression.
In the video, titled "You Need to Be Bored," Brooks, who's also a former president of the American Enterprise Institute, frames boredom not as a flaw but as a feature of the human mind. Brooks explains that when people are unoccupied, their brains activate what scientists call the “default mode network.” This process, he said, naturally steers thoughts toward larger questions about meaning and purpose.
“When you think about nothing, while your mind wanders and thinks about, for example, big questions of meaning in your life — what does my life mean? — you go to kind of uncomfortable existential questions when you’re bored,” Brooks said. “That turns out to be incredibly important, incredibly good.”
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Boredom can play a crucial role in the human experience, according to Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks, who warns in a recent Harvard Business Review videothat avoiding boredom can prevent people from asking deeper questions about life and lead to anxiety and depression.
In the video, titled "You Need to Be Bored," Brooks, who's also a former president of the American Enterprise Institute, frames boredom not as a flaw but as a feature of the human mind. Brooks explains that when people are unoccupied, their brains activate what scientists call the “default mode network.” This process, he said, naturally steers thoughts toward larger questions about meaning and purpose.
“When you think about nothing, while your mind wanders and thinks about, for example, big questions of meaning in your life — what does my life mean? — you go to kind of uncomfortable existential questions when you’re bored,” Brooks said. “That turns out to be incredibly important, incredibly good.”
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Harvard prof Arthur Brooks says avoiding boredom prevents contemplation, can lead to anxiety, depression
Boredom can play a crucial role in the human experience, according to Harvard professor Arthur C Brooks, who warns that avoiding boredom can prevent people from asking deeper questions about life and
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