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The value of boredom | Genevieve Bell | TEDxSydney

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@alecelder
@alecelder 12 жыл бұрын
I agree "boredom led me to watch this" and "this is boring". When we are bored we try to find something to engage ourselves in because being bored is "boring". I also agree that the various ways we attempt to alleviate our boredom are sometimes "boring". This is because we are cognitive misers. We make mental shortcuts that sometimes become a way of habit. and when our brains receive the same stimulation over and over again that stimulation becomes in a way indistinguishable.
@brentenireland
@brentenireland 12 жыл бұрын
I was told that boredom is wanting to do something but being unable to, being frustrated, rather than simply idleness, having said that I stop this talk 4 times to do other things as well.
@celinavillanueva2815
@celinavillanueva2815 8 жыл бұрын
Did anybody else end here because you were terrible bored? I just tried to stop being bored by watching a video about boredom haha
@smithjames2077
@smithjames2077 7 жыл бұрын
Actually speaking, I really don't know why i become terrible bored abruptly…I feel so bad
@charliechen1
@charliechen1 3 жыл бұрын
Why am I watching this when I am bored?
@TheAfrothunderr
@TheAfrothunderr 6 жыл бұрын
Boredom creates insanity, addiction and depression
@TheAfrothunderr
@TheAfrothunderr 4 жыл бұрын
​@Pabriel Gomez what do u do when u are bored
@TheAfrothunderr
@TheAfrothunderr 4 жыл бұрын
@Pabriel Gomezboredom creates anxiety in me how can I possibly meditate with so much in my thoughts? ive read some verses. my fav James 4:4
@rejeanfafard9317
@rejeanfafard9317 7 ай бұрын
I’m there
@flamingxombie
@flamingxombie 8 жыл бұрын
Fascinating video.
@jagizzi
@jagizzi 12 жыл бұрын
I disagree with the latest comments on this; most NOT boring! It took a lot to listen to this with very little visual stimulation. Almost so difficult that it was hard to keep my mind from wandering, but that was definitely not boring. I found myself going back and listening again to pieces I missed. She makes sense, if we fill our time with content, we never make personal discoveries, we only relive those of others. Only my opinion, but in some way I would look at that as a loss.
@Charles-Anthony
@Charles-Anthony 11 жыл бұрын
There's no reason to ever be bored: There are always good books to read.
@CarlosMendez-s5e
@CarlosMendez-s5e 11 ай бұрын
I was here in 2.18.2024 - This Ted Talk was 12 years ago today...everything she is saying is true 1millionX Fold...
@meloearth
@meloearth 13 жыл бұрын
I think that being bored is only lack of imagination. The way around boredom is not just online. One needs to figure that out for themselves. I see no need to "feel bored".
@AnAnLaoshi100
@AnAnLaoshi100 11 жыл бұрын
what a great thinking!
@competitivejourney4853
@competitivejourney4853 2 жыл бұрын
Awesome ❤️
@PipatMethavanitpong
@PipatMethavanitpong 10 жыл бұрын
Good revisit of the definition of "boredom" I still does not have clear understand the value of boredom from this talk. My PoV about the value of it is that it leads to some activities whether they are useful or not. Industries use it as a path to profit by giving something needs attention. And, one activity that snatch most of boredom in this age is SNS.
@RajaramR
@RajaramR 13 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the insightful talk. Now i am logging off and be bored :)
@rickofvernon
@rickofvernon 10 жыл бұрын
RickofVernon - 20140823 I very often suffer from crippling anxiety guilt fear, panic, anger and a episode like this, the way she explains boredom / idleness and we should not fear boredom............... I Love this talk
@BuickGeek24
@BuickGeek24 4 жыл бұрын
That seems a bit overkill to have a signal jammer anywhere
@kartikrawat2029
@kartikrawat2029 7 жыл бұрын
Boredom is a subjective reaction indicating the person to something abt his future ..def:boredom :- it is a desire for desires
@meloearth
@meloearth 13 жыл бұрын
@xqueseraserax A lack of engagement with out own selves also. I meant that we are not only social beings. Much joy, clarity and meaning in life can be achieved by going "inside".
@xqueseraserax
@xqueseraserax 13 жыл бұрын
@meloearth I at least partially agree with you here. Boredom to me denotes a lack of mental stimulation, lack of engagement with the world around us, or lack of feeling. Just because I am not constantly connected to my peers through my phone or laptop doesn't mean I am embracing boredom. People need to fuel their boredom or "I have nothing to do" into something that allows them to engage positively with the outside world around them. Take a walk and allow you thoughts, stress, etc to decompress.
@RubiconXing
@RubiconXing 12 жыл бұрын
Schopenhauer covered this over a century ago, and with greater depth.
@xqueseraserax
@xqueseraserax 12 жыл бұрын
When I speak of 'positive engagement', I mean interacting within oneself and the world. Engagement denotes experiencing thoughts, feelings, etc. and taking time to mull over them and incorporating what we are doing or thinking into our lives.
@XiDingArt
@XiDingArt 12 жыл бұрын
can't put it better
@igrewold
@igrewold 7 жыл бұрын
Interesting idea, boredom resets the mind.
@treasurecompanion
@treasurecompanion 7 жыл бұрын
Boredom isn't good for you causes anxiety restlessness and even depression. Not good for the brain could it lead to dementia?, I think old people in nursing homes can desperately bored and the brain gives up on them. Try and never be bored is what I say. Healthier.
@archibaldmcglasson7111
@archibaldmcglasson7111 11 жыл бұрын
So she said the brain is almost as active bored as it is engauged. It is also active in different parts. Other than that, did she make much of a case for boredom? I seemed to have missed it. I do not advocate overload, but what is great about being bored?
@DjCosmicRush
@DjCosmicRush 11 жыл бұрын
it wasnt mentioned (or at least from the half i watched) but boredom leads to creativity. Perhaps sleep is just an effect of being so overly bored that we start to hallucinate, similar to isolation tanks. The sleep phases could possibly be explained by build of dopamine that eventually causes working memory to turn back on and organize dreams into a sequence. then we could also look at adhd as a disorder being similar to early phases of sleep but then schizophrenia could be deeper sleep like REM.
@kushsharma3798
@kushsharma3798 10 жыл бұрын
That's true. She doesn't really put forth a convincing argument for boredom. It's more of a how to. In my opinion, boredom is important because it teaches us the futility of our ambitious nature. And allows to move towards something that is more natural to us. Probably a way of living which we might not have thought about had we not switched ourselves off from the continual distractions. A more conscious person would get bored more often because he or she would be more aware of repetition. And this would force such a person to rethink their way of living in such a way that is more joyous.
@00076Paint
@00076Paint 9 жыл бұрын
Turning off notifications helps.
@FoilGuru
@FoilGuru 13 жыл бұрын
boredom led me to watch this
@ثغامةعبدالله
@ثغامةعبدالله 7 жыл бұрын
Boredom is interesting and got fame with the industrial century .. you are good woman
@gulllars4620
@gulllars4620 11 жыл бұрын
Could please whoever uploads these run a quick volume leveling pass so the beginning/end of talks don't make people wearing headphones (like me) cringe and reach for the volume control? Thanks.
@megavide0
@megavide0 9 жыл бұрын
"... have a brief moment of being bored!" ;)
@elsapadrons
@elsapadrons 10 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who thinks she is not really saying anything?
@Huu159
@Huu159 9 жыл бұрын
I think so too
@treasurecompanion
@treasurecompanion 7 жыл бұрын
Elsa Padrón Serrano I thought the same .
@igrewold
@igrewold 7 жыл бұрын
Remember all the times in your life you were bored, how did it help/affect you? Did it make you concentrate better? work better? study better? find new activity? do something new? take a walk? ....etc.
@MANIAKRA
@MANIAKRA 7 жыл бұрын
Yeah I got nothing out of that.
@edufur
@edufur 6 жыл бұрын
She is actually highly intelligent and sees things that engineers miss. She is more connected and in tune with the real world than most I have ever met. Because of this, I think she would be a highly successful CEO at Intel. The company desperately needs her at the helm. Lets hope that it happens.
@KoolPaulie
@KoolPaulie 10 жыл бұрын
Want to bring a good kind of boredom back? Read Proust.
@Khaled_Fadl
@Khaled_Fadl 5 жыл бұрын
I feel like the video speed is put on 1.25
@XiDingArt
@XiDingArt 12 жыл бұрын
she doesn't need to tell us to get bored. her talk is so profoundly boring! no evidence, no original ideas, but only some anecdotes and some questionable metaphysical theory (if not half a theory).
@fritzkrieger3316
@fritzkrieger3316 10 жыл бұрын
i think my head is gunna explode
@rolirolster
@rolirolster 7 жыл бұрын
Ironically her voice is pretty monotonous, very few highs and lows; very difficult not to get bored whilst watching her. Interesting subject matter though :-)
@debbiewasshername
@debbiewasshername 12 жыл бұрын
sounds like a typical attack on apple
@rayg5604
@rayg5604 7 жыл бұрын
This is a word salad.
@flamingxombie
@flamingxombie 8 жыл бұрын
Hmm how is it a good thing to be bored?
@neo5kali
@neo5kali 7 жыл бұрын
She advocates regular fasting from social media as a way to reboot creativity and generate new ideas.
@joellesahar
@joellesahar 9 жыл бұрын
I usually almost never critique anyone, but she is very very wrong on so many levels. I'm a person that's never been bored and never will be bored. She obviously doesn't anything about what boredom really is.... Boredom is a state of mind where one is not able to create anything to do, even when you're in a class where you're not able to focus because the teacher is not doing it for you, you could still do something, you have the power to daydream , the power to create, you could create a whole movie, vision, idea in your head while the teacher is talking, you could do the same if you're at a tedious job. The state of boredom falls into the category of people who have not been taught to use their right brain enough, they don't know how to use is to go beyond what is around them. The only way to fight boredom is tap into the right brain and use that part to be able creative, be or do anything in any situation or circumstance. Now what the lady above is talking about is NOT boredom, she's saying it's good to relax the brain and turn off from the world, so the brain could get recharged. That is not boredom, that is actively CHOOSING to turn off and doing completely nothing, that is something that someone could do and that is choice, so ultimately that's not boredom, it's a choice to unwind, detach, or do nothing. I choose to do nothing sometimes, which means just actively doing nothing and being completely aware that I AM relaxing, turning off, unwinding. Boredom is NOT a good thing.. even if I was in Jail, I wouldn't be bored. There's too much to do in this life, and not enough time to do it, too much to create, and because creativity is limitless, how is it possible to be bored? I wish there was 48 hours in the day!! If you get bored, go take a class or course on how to tap into your right brain... then sky will be the limit, and boredom will no longer exist.
8 жыл бұрын
As a neuropsychologist I can tell you that what she says makes perfect sense, listen the part where she says that the brain switches on different parts of the brain when you are "doing nothing". That is exactly correct. When one is not focusing on anything the mind goes to a diffuse mode and starts making connection with what we already know, subconsciously we are working. That's what she meant. That's the point of meditation. Just practice it, when you are running, when you shower, when you're about to sleep, when you are bored, your mind starts wondering. As an anthropologist, every act, is a symbol, even being bored, remembered when she says "boredom" did not come to language until 1800's, that means that boredom didn't exist before, is a social constructed thing. Society says, that we are bored, and so we are; if society didn't say anythig then we wouldn't be bored, we would be wondering, thinkig, creating.
@Alen_Starkly
@Alen_Starkly 8 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this comment! :D
@kartikrawat2029
@kartikrawat2029 7 жыл бұрын
joellesahar there's no such thing as a right brain
@diwr
@diwr 6 жыл бұрын
+Vinik Juré "that means that boredom didn't exist before, is a social constructed thing. Society says, that we are bored, and so we are; if society didn't say anythig then we wouldn't be bored, we would be wondering, thinkig, creating." Haven't you got the cause and effect back to front there? The word "boredom" (or "bored") by the very nature of language must be referring at least indirectly to some perceived phenomenon to have been invented in the first place (that's what meaning is after all) so it seems that society is only describing what was there already. Else how would you explain causally how the word(s) came to be in the first place. "Socially constructed" is a phrase thrown around without further explanation. Of course the causal chain doesn't end there so what's the explanation? The cart before the horse...
@goosetyc145
@goosetyc145 12 жыл бұрын
this is boring
@rverma222
@rverma222 12 жыл бұрын
utterly boring!
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