In our always-connected world, boredom may be a hard-to-define state, but it is a fertile one.

在我们万物互联的世界中，无聊也许是一种很难定义的状态，却也是一种丰富的状态。

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These studies are impressive, but in reality, the benefits of boredom may be related to having time to clear your mind, be quiet, or daydream.

这些研究令人印象深刻，但在现实中，无聊的好处可能与有时间清理大脑、安静待着或做白日梦有关。

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These are the things that will genuinely relieve boredom and make you more effective in the process.

这些事情会切实缓解无聊，让你在这个过程中更有效率。

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The psychologist Woodburn Heron wrote about this subject in his nineteen fifty-seven work The Pathology of Boredom. He said that the brain depends on having continuing information from the bodys senses.

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Well, on the one hand, if we make it be me and similar to me, boredom's going to set in.

一方面，如果永生的是我且与我相似，无聊将成为问题。

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If we make--If we solve the problem of boredom setting in with progressive memory loss and radical personality changes, maybe boredom won't set in, but it's not anything that I especially want for myself.

如果用持续失忆,和剧烈人格变化来解决无聊的问题，也许不会产生无聊，但那不是我特别想做的事。

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With the debut of new academic papers and symposia on boredom in the workplace and cross-cultural experiences of inactivity and boredom, there is a boomlet in boredom studies.

WSJ: Interesting Fact: There's a Yawning Need for Boring Professors

Before the latest Balkan war, all in the region had been hoping for a long period of boredom, in which historical grudges, especially those involving Russians and their former empire, would fade and economic ties across the Baltic Sea would continue their sprightly growth.

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In their view, by filling almost every second of down time by peering at our phones we are missing out on the creative and potentially rewarding ways we've dealt with boredom in days past.

CNN: Have smartphones killed boredom (and is that good)?