Hello listener, 

I hope you are doing well, and had a nice weekend. It rained a lot around the Philly region, and it was one of those weekends where my kids told me they were bored about every five minutes. My standard answer of "then find something to do," never seems to land. Of course, there's always the temptation of screens, and an endless stream of videos, articles and pictures, right at our fingertips. But even though it's now possible to fill every waking moment of your life with some kind of content, it sometimes feels like we're more easily bored than ever. We're double-screening, tuning out of meetings to check emails, scrolling on Instagram during a long lecture...

On this week's episode, we explore boredom, and why we feel it. We hear from a researcher who studies boredom in his lab, and talk to a psychiatrist who says all of us need a break from highly stimulating online content that leaves us feeling restless and ill at ease when we're not staring at our phones. Also, a university professor talks about his life as a monk in Thailand where he experienced a lot of boredom in very extreme setting.

Take a listen!
Maiken

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