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[Link].000 Part of this video was sponsored by LastPass. Stick around to the end
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[Link].760 In a recent study participants were placed in a room for between 6 and
15 minutes.
[Link].900 They were given nothing except a button that they knew would shock
them if they pressed it.
[Link].239 They were asked to entertain themselves with their thoughts,
[Link].180 but they could self administer the shock if they so chose.
[Link].820 So what happened?
[Link].080 Well, 25% of women and 67% of men shocked themselves.
[Link].320 This is despite the fact that they had previously told the
experimenters
[Link].280 that they would pay money to avoid the shock.
[Link].940 Apparently they'd rather experience physical pain than just be bored;
[Link].580 to have nothing to keep them occupied but their thoughts.
[Link].020 But they are not alone.
[Link].320 Around 95% of American adults report participating in some leisure
activities over the past 24 hours.
[Link].020 But only 17% say they spent any time at all just relaxing and
thinking,
[Link].500 because that apparently is boring, and being bored is unpleasant.
[Link].720 So what is boredom? Well contrary to popular belief, it's not when you
have absolutely nothing to do.
[Link].840 It's just when none of the options you have available to you appeal to
you.
[Link].120 Boredom is characterized by a lack of concentration, restlessness, but
also feeling lethargic.
[Link].820 It's really a state of being underwhelmed.
[Link].860 And there are now more ways than ever to avoid boredom.
[Link].060 With Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube,
[Link].700 not to mention my chronic news I have waiting in line, sitting in a
coffee shop, stopped at a traffic light.
[Link].960 Many people reach for their phones to stave off boredom, and nowhere
is sacred.
[Link].600 Do you ever just let yourself be bored?
[Link].460 No, no, I generally don't.
[Link].500 But are we losing anything by avoiding boredom?
[Link].700 Well, scientific research says yes, and what we're losing is
important.
[Link].440 When you're bored your mind wanders.
[Link].500 That's only natural.
[Link].419 The state of boredom is one where your attention is not focused on
anything in particular.
[Link].860 Researchers have shown this mind wandering is useful for creativity.
[Link].180 They gave study participants a random boring task. The most boring
one: reading the phone book.
[Link].220 Then, they asked participants to be creative;
[Link].700 generate as many ideas as they could for what you could do with a
plastic cup.
[Link].180 Those in the most boring read the phone book condition
[Link].360 generated the most creative solutions compared to less bored controls.
[Link].810 A major reason many researchers suspect that we experience boredom
[Link].880 is because it gives you an indicator of your current state.
[Link].940 I mean, if you find yourself feeling bored, you know something about
that situation isn't working for you.
[Link].100 Let me ask you this. When you're in class and you're a bit bored
[Link].760 do you ever just pull out your phone and have a look at stuff?
[Link].880 Yeah. All the time.
[Link].600 So the paradox of boredom is that it makes you feel tired, sluggish
and just disinterested.
[Link].300 But it may actually spur you to action. It may get you to make changes
that would be positive for your life.
[Link].520 And changes like getting this guy's legs out of my face. That would be
perfect.
[Link].800 In the absence of boredom, one would remain trapped in unfulfilling
situations
[Link].900 and miss out on many emotionally, cognitively and socially rewarding
experiences.
[Link].140 Boredom is both a warning that we're not doing what we want to be
doing,
[Link].980 and a push that motivates us to switch goals and projects.
[Link].920 Studies have also shown that boredom may make you more altruistic.
[Link].240 Perhaps the acute sense of aimlessness you experience when you're
bored gets out of control,
[Link].060 and makes you question what you're doing with your life as a whole.
[Link].240 But the silver lining is that it may trigger you to think about others
and what you can do to help them.
[Link].400 And that provides an immediate and concrete purpose to a life that
might momentarily feel like it's lacking one.
[Link].560 You know, studies designed to induce boredom have shown
[Link].520 that more bored participants are more likely to donate to charity, or
to give blood.
[Link].220 Can I ask what led you to donate blood today?
[Link].860 I had free time in my hands. You know, just, waiting for 2 hours, an
hour and a half or so.
[Link].980 So apparently the opportunity to do meaningful,
[Link].260 even if unpleasant activities have more value if you're bored than if
you're not.
[Link].440 Similarly, this aimless state seems to cultivate thoughts about what
you want to do with your life.
[Link].420 To think of your life as a story and consider where you want it to go
in the future.
[Link].920 This is called autobiographical planning.
[Link].780 When given tasks that only use a fraction of mental capacity,
[Link].140 study participants frequently thought of the future and their plans
for it.
[Link].340 In this way being bored is essential for goal-setting.
[Link].820 If your brain is always consumed with other stimuli,
[Link].600 you'll rarely ponder the bigger picture and set long-term goals for
yourself and consider how to achieve them.
[Link].900 Does a phone get rid of your boredom?
[Link].120 Yeah, actually, thinking about it, it does.
[Link].640 So every time you're waiting for something,
[Link].960 you have a decision to make which seems like a tiny one.
[Link].560 Pull out your phone for a few seconds or minutes, or just be bored;
experience only your thoughts.
[Link].260 It seems like an insignificant decision.
[Link].860 And if you don't give it much thought the obvious action is to see
what's new on your app of choice
[Link].940 And in making that decision you are alleviating a moment of boredom.
[Link].200 But you are also likely making yourself less creative, less
altruistic,
[Link].040 less likely to assess your current state and less likely to set goals
for your future.
[Link].000 In short, you are the real world example of someone shocking
themselves
[Link].460 to avoid the unpleasantness of boredom.
[Link].460 Except in your case, the pain goes much deeper to the very nature of
who you are, and who you will become.
[Link].660 So think carefully before pressing that button.
[Link].980 So, being bored is apparently something our brains need to do.
[Link].380 Something our brains don't need to do, is remember lots of random
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[Link].540 just being bored and thinking about your life rather than remembering
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