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The Neuroscience of Boredom

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Are Some People Better at Dealing With Boredom Than Others?

Boredom is when your reward system says, hay, that option over there is better than what i'm currently doing. There's some really cool research about reframing things so that you can sort of validate that listening to the lecture is more rewarding than playing video games. And that's one way to solve the boredom problem. But are some people better at dealing with boredom than others? Then the answer is yes.

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