> All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. —BP
The older I get, the more I agree with this.
Children should be allowed to get bored (2013)
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#22Children vehemently disagree with expert (since times immemorial)
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#23Wish there was more rigorous studies on this. Yesterday I got stuck waiting for a train for 3 hours with a dead phone, so I walked around Boston and an old lady sat down at the park to talk to me about her dogs. I got back to the station an hour too early and read the beginning of a book someone left behind.
Can we get a (2024) study on this?
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#24> All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. —BP
This immediately brings to mind the Seinfeld episode where Ellen's boyfriend stares blankly at the back of the airplane seat in front of him on a long international flight.
That being said, I generally agree with the sentiment.
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#25“should be allowed”, in practice, means “should be forced”, since it means saying no to the huge collection of devices (TVs, computers, tablets, nintendos etc) that prevent boredom.
Yeah, that's intuitively not a fate I would want to wish on my own kids. I'm just old enough to have spent the first ~14 years of my life without any personal computing devices, and I remember the boredom being agonizing.
Now, the kind of device I would provide is another story. Unfettered access to the Internet at large, including social media, is probably not well advised - access to Wikipedia probably is. Questions of degree.
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#26> All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. —BP
This immediately brings to mind the Seinfeld episode where Ellen's boyfriend stares blankly at the back of the airplane seat in front of him on a long international flight. That being said, I generally agree with the sentiment.
I have this talent.
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#27> All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. —BP
Also solutions.
Re: Children should be allowed to get bored (2013)
#28“should be allowed”, in practice, means “should be forced”, since it means saying no to the huge collection of devices (TVs, computers, tablets, nintendos etc) that prevent boredom.
Yeah, that's intuitively not a fate I would want to wish on my own kids. I'm just old enough to have spent the first ~14 years of my life without any personal computing devices, and I remember the boredom being agonizing . Now, the kind of device I would provide is another story. Unfettered access to the Internet at large, including social media, is probably not well advised - access to Wikipedia probably is. Questio…
Kids get bored of tech and TV despite unlimited access.
Re: Children should be allowed to get bored (2013)
#29For my own kids when they are bored there is a flow of requests. First they ask if they can watch TV. Then they ask if they play video games. Then they ask if they can goto a friends house that they like. Then they ask if they can see a neighbor kid who they are kinda meh about. If I keep saying no to all the distractions they typically will enter a complainy phase about how they are bored, but after a bit of boredom…
Dogs that beg for food are dogs that know they get fed when they beg for food.
Dogs have varying levels of optimism. Some cheerfully begs for food despite a success rate of maybe 1:100.
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#30> All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. —BP
All of social engineering and electric boddhism aims to get humanity into a room to be content with a slightly glowing stone..