Being Bored: Why Boredom is Good
Boredom is a motivator. It drives people to think up something new to alleviate the feeling of aimlessness and restlessness that characterizes boredom. Time vs Biological Cues Humans today use time to gauge when tasks should be worked on or completed. Time decides where one should switch tasks. Time is standardized, and everyone knows what a minute, second, hour, day is. However, what did people use to govern their lives before the construct of time was invented? I think people used to rely on nature, external and internal cues to decide when to switch tasks; decide when to eat, sleep, spend time with friends and family, or hunt. Hunger decides when an ancient man must eat; tiredness, when he sleeps. Those are some examples of natural internal cues that drive human actions before the concept of time was known. Time vs Nature Natural external cues include seasons and weather. The sun decides when one must sleep because humans never evolved night vision. Seasons decide if it’s time to ha...