Is It Just We Get Bored?

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"I'm curious of like, is it just we get bored and we're not meant for for that level of just survive? I think that's true in many levels. Sometimes we seek out a painful activity just cause we're bored," he says. "You know, i'm bored ind want to poke a knife through my cheek, you know, because on boardand that's crazy."

Paul Bloom is a professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto. He was also the Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University . Paul studies how children and adults make sense of the world, with a focus on pleasure, morality, religion, fiction, and art.

Paul's newest book is The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning.

Read more about Paul at his website: paulbloom.net.

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