<story><title>Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests</title><url>https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2022/07/thoughts-mind-wander</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>liberia</author><text>Well as a hacker, boredom is the enemy and we’re always at war with boredom. For a hacker, boredom is a form of death.</text></item><item><author>xcambar</author><text>As I grew older, there are certain things I have learned to enjoy more, such as slowness, inaction, loneliness, boredom.&lt;p&gt;Boredom is typically the most controversial, so the reason here is that boredom first allows for moments you want out of, but also there&amp;#x27;s more:  It expands the range of comfort zone of emotions and sets the ground floor of your emotions low enough that you can actually welcome more experiences as rather good. That limits the number of  &amp;quot;meh&amp;quot; moments drastically.
Beware though that setting the ground floor of your emotions lower doesn&amp;#x27;t mean it lowers down the average &amp;quot;feeling of happiness&amp;quot; in your
life.&lt;p&gt;The thing I reject the most today is the constant pressure for action, movement and performance.
I used to love them though but now, nearing 40, I see them a way to escape rather than embrace what life has to offer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corobo</author><text>I gotta disagree here. Boredom is where all my ideas come from. Boredom is the catalyst to wondering how Xyz works.&lt;p&gt;Boredom is taking an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem, and then realising you can put a front end on that and do it as a service for people who don&amp;#x27;t have that skillset.&lt;p&gt;No boredom, no hacking.</text></comment>
<story><title>Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests</title><url>https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2022/07/thoughts-mind-wander</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>liberia</author><text>Well as a hacker, boredom is the enemy and we’re always at war with boredom. For a hacker, boredom is a form of death.</text></item><item><author>xcambar</author><text>As I grew older, there are certain things I have learned to enjoy more, such as slowness, inaction, loneliness, boredom.&lt;p&gt;Boredom is typically the most controversial, so the reason here is that boredom first allows for moments you want out of, but also there&amp;#x27;s more:  It expands the range of comfort zone of emotions and sets the ground floor of your emotions low enough that you can actually welcome more experiences as rather good. That limits the number of  &amp;quot;meh&amp;quot; moments drastically.
Beware though that setting the ground floor of your emotions lower doesn&amp;#x27;t mean it lowers down the average &amp;quot;feeling of happiness&amp;quot; in your
life.&lt;p&gt;The thing I reject the most today is the constant pressure for action, movement and performance.
I used to love them though but now, nearing 40, I see them a way to escape rather than embrace what life has to offer.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>switchbak</author><text>Well, some hackers are also Buddhists, which don&amp;#x27;t tend to view boredom like that.</text></comment>