When was the last time you were bored — truly bored — and - TopicsExpress



          

When was the last time you were bored — truly bored — and didn’t instantly spring to fill your psychic emptiness by checking Facebook or Twitter or Instagram? The last time you stood in line at the store or the boarding gate or the theater and didn’t reach for your smartphone seeking deliverance from the dreary prospect of forced idleness? A century and a half ago, Kierkegaard argued that this impulse to escape the present by keeping ourselves busy is our greatest source of unhappiness. Adam Phillips on why boredom is essential for a full life. Read the rest on Brain Pickings: brainpickings.org/2014/06/19/adam-phillips-boredom/ Pick up three Adam Phillips eBooks for $2.99 each, for a limited time only: picadorbookroom.tumblr/post/106906012438/adam-phillips-ebook-sale
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:56:04 +0000

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