{"id":12417,"date":"2023-01-03T14:18:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T21:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12417"},"modified":"2023-01-07T14:21:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T21:21:28","slug":"profound-boredom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/03\/profound-boredom\/","title":{"rendered":"Profound Boredom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/social-media-kills-boredom-that-may-lead-to-creativity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Telegraph via National Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"articleTitle\">Social media kills boredom that may lead to creativity<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Scrolling mindlessly through attention-grabbing posts, videos and threads prevents the build-up of &#8216;profound boredom&#8217; needed to spur people on to new passions or skills, experts warn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital\/nationalpost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/couch-potato.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=288&amp;h=216\" alt=\"Lazy man\" style=\"width: 480px;\"><br><em>PHOTO BY GETTY IMAGES\/ISTOCKPHOTO<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Walter Benjamin, a German philosopher, noted that boredom was the \u201cdream bird that hatches the egg of experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the creative flights of fancy that often arise from having little to do, are being killed off by social media, researchers believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scrolling mindlessly through attention-grabbing posts, videos and threads prevents the build-up of \u2018profound boredom\u2019 needed to spur people on to new passions or skills, experts warn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, people find themselves in a state of \u2018superficial boredom\u2019, which does not spark creative thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/world\/social-media-kills-boredom-that-may-lead-to-creativity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at National Post<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Telegraph via National Post Social media kills boredom that may lead to creativity Scrolling mindlessly through attention-grabbing posts, videos and threads prevents the build-up of &#8216;profound boredom&#8217; needed to spur people on to new passions or skills, experts warn PHOTO BY GETTY IMAGES\/ISTOCKPHOTO Walter Benjamin, a German philosopher, noted that boredom was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}