How I Stopped Fearing Boredom

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 14.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Dr Laurie HATES boredom! Since childhood she's found it so painful that she'll do anything to avoid being bored. She'll watch crappy TV. She'll find extra work to do. She'll snack. But boredom is actually an incredibly useful tool to boost our happiness and creativity.

With the help of leading boredom experts, Dr Laurie learns how to embrace doing nothing and finds that in the midst of tedium our brains can come up with the most amazing breakthrough ideas.

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0:00.0	Between today's wellness fads and news about tomorrow's medical breakthroughs, it's hard to know what health information actually applies to you.
0:07.5	Luckily, there's a podcast that breaks through the noise.
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0:13.4	Join host Dr. Shoshana Unger Lider,
0:15.6	as she introduces you to leading health experts
0:18.3	that break down the questions you didn't know you had.
0:20.7	Well, eating a plant-based diet make you healthier? How does your neighborhood impact your health?
0:25.2	How will medical treatments change in the future?
0:27.4	Learn all this and more on Ted Health. Find Ted Health wherever you get your podcasts.
0:47.0	Pushkin. There's one trait that my mom and I have in common. Can you hear me now?
0:50.0	Yes, I can see you too.
0:51.0	Okay.
0:52.0	Wait a minute, let me put the TV off. So this is for a whole
0:55.1	podcast season that we're doing on stuff that I'm bad at. Okay. This is a whole
0:59.6	episode about boredom because I feel like I'm pretty bad at boredom.
1:03.5	You are.
1:04.5	The 17th century French philosopher, Blaze Pascal, was convinced that he knew the single
1:08.7	greatest challenge facing our species.
1:11.3	All of humanity's problems, he said, stem from man's inability to sit down quietly
1:16.2	in a room alone. Blaze Pascal was lucky he didn't meet me, or my mom.
1:20.9	But I feel like I'm bad at boredom because you're bad at boredom.
1:24.4	Yeah, no, I didn't do well with doing nothing.
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