From the course: Bored and Brilliant (Blinkist Summary)

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Avoidance of boredom

Avoidance of boredom

From the course: Bored and Brilliant (Blinkist Summary)

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Avoidance of boredom

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- [Narrator] Blink number one: our avoidance of boredom might be hurting our creativity. It's Sunday afternoon and you've got nothing to do, truly nothing, the internet is down, you're all alone, your phone is dead, and there aren't any books. You get the picture. Does this sound like the most mind-numbingly boring and awful thing ever? To give you a sense of the level of dislike we have of boredom, consider a study conducted at the University of Virginia. In the experiment participants we exposed to three types of stimuli music, images and mild electric shocks after some time the participants were asked whether they'd be willing to pay to stop the shocks and 75% of them said they would. The participants were then given 15 minutes to think things over, they were left alone and given a button that, if pressed, would shock them. Here's the weird part, one third of the participants who said they'd pay a fee to make the…

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