Lean in to boredom, not your smart phone screen. You’ll learn more about yourself and the world around you than you think Confessing to boredom is confessing to a character-flaw. Popular culture is littered with advice on how to shake it off: find like-minded people, take up a hobby, find a cause and work for it, take up an instrument, read a book, clean your house And certainly don’t let your kids be bored: enroll…
Boredom is not a problem to be solved. It’s the last privilege of a free mind
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