Boredom is good for you, according to recent research

May 6, 2011

Dear DMC

Boredom is good for you. Check today’s guardian.co.uk Friday May 6 2011:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/06/boredom-good-for-you-claims-study/print

Yours sincerely

François Gojat
Wimereux, France

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Dear Francois

Thanks for sending this reassuring information to us.

We like the observation that boredom is nearly always essential to creativity, that a person who is bored with the way something is being done many times before will want to try something else, that boredom, like nothing else, stimulates the search for better ways to do things.

Sincerely,

DMC