Is Boredom Really Important in Your Life?

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Boredom is really important in your life. You should be bored quite frequently, if you can constantly scrowl through feeds. Most people are happy to be the ones listening to homer tell the poem humph of the iliot,. not create their own. It's always like that, till we need other people to kind of light up our imagination. But one thing that can have an effect on that, i think, is our now ability to never be bored.

Andrea Domenichini is a media producer and podcaster who runs his own show Voices in the Dark, and has been helping me with the latest episodes of the MetaLearn podcast. In this episode we discuss:- The role curiosity plays in learning and how to cultivate it in yourself and others- The nature of knowledge and the thread running between science and the arts- What Dungeons & Dragons has taught Andrea about storytelling, creativity and media We also talk about growing up in different cultures, neurodivergence and the HBO Series Westworld and what it teaches us about consciousness.