boredom: understanding and conquering the "b" word

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This is the slidedeck for the conference presentation on boredom. You can find the handout to accompany this slidedeck here http://bit.ly/boredomhandout.

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Millions long for

immortality who

don’t know what

to do with

themselves on a

rainy Sunday

afternoon. Susan Ertz

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Boredom can

be a lethal

thing on a

small island. Christopher Moore

Island of the Sequined Love Nun

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Boredom is a feeling of unpleasure arising out of a conflict between a need for intense mental activity and lack of incitement to it, or inability to be incited

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Death: Do you

know, that in a

universe so full of

wonders, they have

managed to

invent boredom? Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

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I've noticed that my best ideas always bubble up when the outside world fails in its primary job of frightening, wounding or entertaining me.- Scott Adams

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Is it boredom

or distraction?

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Boredom is the

conviction that

you can’t

change…the

shriek of unused

capacities. Saul Bellow, The Adventures

of Augie March

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Caution: low-flying fish

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Our labour preserves us from three great evils - weariness, vice, and want. Voltaire, Candide

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Thank you so much for your kind attention!

{I hope you weren’t bored}