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Did You Know There Are 5 Types Of Boredom?

Are you bored?

Want to do something about that?

First, you’ll have to decide which type of boredom you have.

Yes, that’s right. There are different types of boredom, actually five.

Check out this post called “There Are 5 Types of Boredom” by Meghan Holohan and learn about them…

5 types of boredom

“We’ve all experienced boredom. Maybe it was the never-ending PowerPoint about professionalism that made you profoundly bored. Or maybe the conversation at family dinner left you with a dull, blah feeling. That’s the thing about boredom: There’s more than just one type. Researchers have discovered that there are actually five different kinds—and most people tend to experience just one type of boredom throughout their lives. “We speculate that experiencing specific boredom types might, to some degree, be due to personality-specific dispositions,” Thomas Goetz of the University of Konstanz and the Thurgau University of Teacher Education, one of the experts who identified the five different types, explains.

“What are these types of boredom, and how can one boredom differ from another?

“1. INDIFFERENT

“People with indifferent boredom appear relaxed, calm, and withdrawn. Think of it as a stoner boredom of sorts (it’s so indifferent that even its definition is barebones).”

Click here to learn the other 4 types of boredom on MentalFloss.com

 

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