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In a leftfield experiment, researchers have found that when presented with neutral or boring stimuli (watching a plain movie, or a boring clip on loop for an hour, respectively), participants were more likely to engage in eating and even self-administering small electric shocks to escape boredom

In a leftfield experiment, researchers have found that when presented with neutral or boring stimuli (watching a plain movie, or a boring clip on loop for an hour, respectively), participants were more likely to engage in eating and even self-administering small electric shocks to escape boredom

https://doi.org/f6wbxq

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Boredom being the absence of satisfaction, this resonates with a recent Lex podcast with @pmarca where Marc Andreessen said the goal of life is not happiness, but satisfaction. So we not only strive to escape boredom, this study shows that we will even subject ourselves to destructive behaviors to alleviate boredom

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This most basic tendency of ours (call it curiosity) plays the same role within one lifetime that mutation plays between generations, namely preventing the system from getting stuck in a locally optimal state. Mechanical stress is crucial for musculoskeletal health, social interaction for cognitive ability, etc.

Pascal is adequate here:
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone