What Does Boredom Have to Do With Mindfulness?

Boredom is a feeling that the situation you're in right now isn't stimulating enough. You should not underestimate how uncomfortable and powerful boredom is, he says. If you remove stimulus from a person, like if you put them in isolation, they go crazy. So it's this very powerful internal mechanism in human beings that says, whatever you're doing now is not stimulating enough.