 balthazarus says: "In experiments in the 1970s, psychiatrists showed that participants completing word-association tasks quickly tired of the job once obvious answers were given; granted more time, they began trying much more creative solutions" "In a recent paper in The Cambridge Journal of Education, Teresa Belton and Esther Priyadharshini of East Anglia University in England reviewed decades of research and theory on boredom, and concluded that it’s time that boredom “be recognized as a legitimate human emotion that can be central to learning and creativity.” i am not sure that i agree to the above statement made by Teresa. a) what is a "legitimate human emotion"? i am not sure there is such a thing as "legitimate" which is a priori, this leads me to the second point b) as always boredom may be a tool for creativity but it is much dependant on the human involved... (in that case we may need to coin this state by a different name) sometimes I was I had time to be bored! just noticed you got spammed. The first one is a Chrysler salesman. Two different users with the same video. The others look like market research and Penis enlargement kit videos? I checked the chrysler salesman, but guessed the other two and didn't want to push my luck. I don't know what flagging youtube does but I might try. What has this got to do with boredom? Apart from the fact that spam is boring. I was wondering how the fact that the attention span (my own included) seems to be decreasing due to information overload, affects the manner in which people become bored. I don't remember being bored for a while, but somehow I can stop boredom with a cup of coffee, but it only works to a... I just flagged the Chrysler Video as spam. I'll leave the rest to The spam hunters at the top. Thanks. i think that the motivation towards a certain goal, state is not measured or created only at the moment of being bored, but rather it reflects the overall of the said human. what was a moment before? what are the drives? passions? the overall direction the thing with the overflow of information as you said, is the pressure towards shallowness, that again feeds the boredom cycle... i hope it is not too long  |
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