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The Not-Boring Truth About Boredom
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Boredom Is a Crisis of Agency
John says that you can think of boredom as a crisis of agency. In theory, we want an internal alert system for when we don't have agency. But what happens from there is not so simple. For some people, the sensation of boredom pushes us to engage our brains and bodies in positive ways. For others, boredom is associated with things like overeating, impulsivity, depression, anger and risk taking.
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