Stylist’s Meena Alexander explores our inability to be bored, the science behind boredom and the creative power it may in fact hold.

Stylistu2019s Meena Alexander explores our inability to be bored, the science behind boredom and the creative power it may in fact hold.

Science of boredom: why are we unable to be bored?

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We’re wired to want to be engaged with the world, exercise our abilities and realise our potential to stop us stagnating as a species 

Boredom is a signal emotion like pain or anger, warning us  that something needs fixing, that what we’re doing isn’t good for us. 

Woman bored at work wit head on desk and afro hair

Understand that hectic overactivity is not healthy and it doesn’t make you better or more productive.

“There’s rarely a moment when our brains are not subject to some form of external stimulus.”