218 Dr. Erin Westgate on How to Create a Psychologically Rich Life
Behind the Brilliance
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Are You Boredomed?
When I went to graduate school in social psychology, it certainly wasn't my goal to set out to study boredom. And so we were trying to do these studies and make people's lives better. And what we kept finding was that people didn't enjoy it very much. They preferred doing fun things to thinking fun thoughts. So I really sort of pulled back and said, well, let's forget why thinking is boring.
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