The Threat of Boredom Is a Call to Action
We typically try to avoid boredom. But in trying to outrun boredom, we risk failing to heed its call.
James Danckert
James Danckert is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Waterloo and coauthor of the book Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom. He studies the cognitive and neural correlates of boredom, mental model building and updating, and the consequence of strokes.