How Do We Make Thinking More Enjoyable and What Makes It So Hard?

Wharton Professor Katie Milkman was on the show and she shared a similar story of just having this interesting experience doing research and then wondering why there wasn't more on it. What is it that most of us misunderstand about boredom? I think one is that we think about boredom as being something that says something bad about you. We have that saying only boring people get bored. And that's not true. Boredom is something all of us experience from time to time. It's completely natural. Just like feeling anger is healthy and feeling sadness is healthy. So what you're doing has to feel meaningful or you're going to feel bored, but also the engaged and you can be engaged in