Carl Smith
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508 appearances
10 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2018
last heard Sep 2020
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She points to other studies, including her own, exploring boredom's link to creativity.
I'm interested to hear why you think boredom could lead to something like creativity.
But Dr.
Mann says this doesn't mean that all boredom will lead to creativity.
Now to be clear, while some boredom might have some benefits, it is still considered a broadly negative emotion, and for good reason.
One study published in the journal Science found that when faced with sitting in a room with nothing to do, some participants would administer painful electric shocks to themselves, just to alleviate boredom.
There's even a correlation between boredom and a shorter lifespan.
And even boredom's so-called upside, that it could make you more creative, could be a problem too.
Thomas Goods.
Then there's also the problem that when people do feel bored, that's often tangled up with other strong negative emotions too, like tiredness, anger, or frustration.
Dr.
Sandy Mann.
But despite its pitfalls, Professor Thomas Goetz believes we can all find ways to embrace boredom, and that we can encourage more positive experiences with it in our lives.
I wonder whether embracing even those bad types of boredom might be useful for people in terms of their happiness as a sort of palate cleanser.
Those boring, dull, even bad experiences might make the highs of life feel better.
Doctor Sandy Mann.
So what tips does she have then for embracing boredom?
Ruth Vienhoven, happiness researcher at Erasmus University in the Netherlands, believes the current interest in ideas like Nixon and even positive forms of boredom likely stems from an absence of true boredom in our lives.
How could we begin to learn how to do Nixon then?
Given you study happiness more broadly, I just wonder whether you feel that maybe ideas like Nixon, like daydreaming, and even like boredom
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