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Yuval Harari: ON Why Boredom is Good For You

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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How to Deal With Boredom

When you're bored, we tend to think about boredom as something like nothing happens. What it actually means is our particular sensations in the body. And when you actually observe, I mean, you see that they are extremely unpleasant. It's a more subtle kind of pain throughout your body which many people find far more intolerable than the heroic, severe pain from meditation. For me, when I'm bored, I find that I use it as space to breathe properly. That's kind of what I do. Whenever I'm bored or there's a gap, I just take on my phone without any purpose, without any intention, without any goal. There is actually something, when you pick up the

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