🔼: [[⭐️ Emotions]] # Boredom Boredom is a craving for [[💡 Dopamine|Dopamine]]. It's brain's way of punishing us for not doing what our parts find more interesting. It's a stimulus-seeking impulse, similar to: - Hunger - Thirst - Boredom - Loneliness - Tiredness/Sleepiness Boredom is actually crucial. If we're always busy, always focusing, always in flow, always efforting, we're overworking our mind. Our collective overstimulation is linked to depression, life dissatisfaction, a sense that our life is going by faster, and missing the beauty of life that arises when we aren't paying attention to a screen. ![[🦮 How to Manage Boredom]] [^1]: