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Offline with Jon Favreau

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The Struggle of Humanity to Avoid Boredom

Sally Kohn: What you said about boredom hit home for me more personally than anything else. I find myself on my phone to avoid the times where I'm sitting at bed at night thinking about bigger questions of meaning and purpose and existence that sort of flood into your head when you're just by yourself. She says, in a way, it's so tragic because we've engineered this world that actually allows us to have leisure time to reflect on these deep moral questions. And instead of doing that, we're playing League of Legends, she says.

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