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Old 01-30-2012, 04:06 AM   #1
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When I was little and complained of being bored, I was told that "if you're bored, it just means that you're boring!"

On a similar note, the most intelligent person I believe I have ever met said, "...only dumb people get bored. Intelligent people have far too much to think about."

On the other hand, there is substantial evidence that highly intelligent children underperform or even begin to misbehave precisely because they are bored.

Thoughts on what is going on here....?
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In my experience, the bright ones act up when they find the topic too easy, while the less academic ones act up when they find the topic too hard. I used to tutor 'troubled' kids between 16 and 18 who, for various reasons, did not achieve GCSEs. There weren't enough of them to split them into sets based on ability, and there was only one of me. It was a nightmare, to be honest. Thankfully, the course has since been redesigned.
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The people who say negative things about people who get bored are likely trying to motivate them to find something to do so they are no longer bored. That would be my guess. Or they are just being jerks.

I personally think highly intelligent people have a greater likelihood of becoming bored because their minds need to be engaged, and so much of everyday life doesn't engage a person's brain.
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...I personally think highly intelligent people have a greater likelihood of becoming bored...
I must be dumb as a stump, as I can't recall ever being bored in my life. No kidding. I've read boring books and seen boring films and known boring people and stuff, but I've never been actively bored. I'm not even sure what it's supposed to feel like.

My mind wanders a good deal, though, perhaps as a mechanism to stave off boredom, so I remain entertained most of the time, regardless of my surroundings.

It's worth noting that on the opposite end, I'm rarely excited about anything and have no idea why people become ecstatic about what appears to be the most trivial things I can think of...

My old man told me once, "You never seem to run hot or cold, Son. You're just tepid."

I think he was right.
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I tend to think of the "bard" approach. (I coined that just then.)

A bard, in Dungeons And Dragons, is a jack-of-all-trades - has ability in loads of things, but doesn't necessarily specialise in any one thing.

So, to me, I try to be like a bard with multiple specialisations.

I write, I play music, I (try to) draw, I'm interested in physics, I'll be studying philosophy, I want to work in retail while I study, I want to be organised and clean, I love fashion, I love shopping.

However, I can usually only do 1 of those things at a time, and usually for only a short period of time. If I focus on one thing too much, I get sick of it.

So when I get bored, it's almost always the in-between moments. When I've finished writing for the day, and don't know what I want to do next. So I just sit there, or pace, and convince myself that everything is boring because I'm already bored.

So to me, boredom is simply what happens when you don't feel like doing something that could relieve the boredom. If I do none of my interests, I get bored.

I don't think it has anything to do with intelligence or whether you're a boring person.
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The thing about children is that their environment is often at the mercy of adults. I think it's fair to say that bright kids - like less-bright kids, like creative kids and less-creative kids - can get bored in a classroom, depending on who is running it. In my experience though, bright kids tend to be rarely bored outside of the classroom. (On the other hand the same can be said for less-bright but highly-motivated kids of all kinds, and for the younger members of the criminal classes as well, who are probably out swiping hubcaps or selling stocks and bonds or whatever it is young criminals do these days...)

Generalisations only tend to hold in a very general sense.
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I should add that I think a lot, but not all thoughts are equally entertaining.

"Normal" life, the day-to-day stuff, is more likely to bore me if that's all I'm thinking about. Again, it's when I don't focus on my specialisations that I get bored.
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Yeah - but - surely if they're bright, they can find things to engage their brains?
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Hmm. Well, I could mastermind a plan to take over the world.
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I have the attention span of a goldfish and am easily bored, except when plotting (dire deeds and stories) or reading. School was sheer misery. Sixteen years of bored-out-of-my-skull misery.
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Well - I was thinking more along the lines of a cryptic crossword, but hell yeah! Yay for world domination!!
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I have the attention span of a goldfish and am easily bored, except when plotting (dire deeds and stories) or reading. School was sheer misery. Sixteen years of bored-out-of-my-skull misery.
Yeah - I didn't finish. They would have expelled me, but I wasn't there often enough. I loved the library though.
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It's worth noting that on the opposite end, I'm rarely excited about anything
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Perhaps boredom is the feeling you get when you feel you're not allowed to enjoy some down-time doing nothing?

I mean, yesterday was the first day in 5 months where I haven't had a job. I finished up on Saturday. So naturally, on Sunday mum started in with questions like, "So, what are you going to do this week?" in that tone that means, "You better do something productive, because doing nothing, even if it's only briefly, isn't allowed."

It's comments like that that have made me incapable (in recent years) of enjoying a day of doing nothing.

So I feel bored, and strangely guilty instead.
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On a similar note, the most intelligent person I believe I have ever met said, "...only dumb people get bored. Intelligent people have far too much to think about."

On the other hand, there is substantial evidence that highly intelligent children underperform or even begin to misbehave precisely because they are bored.

Thoughts on what is going on here....?
Children are forced to pay attention in school. If that content bores them, they underperform or misbehave.

Adults aren't forced to do anything. If they start to get bored, they have the freedom to think about something else. (Although if you look in meeting rooms around the corporate world, you will find lots of smart people who are bored and probably misbehaving; doodling, mostly.)

It's all about what is age-appropriate. Doodling is a sign that a child lacks focus, but is also a sign that an adult has an active imagination. What used to be misbehaviour becomes a virtue when you get older. The underlying psychology doesn't change. The social acceptability of the mis-behavior changes.
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When I was little and complained of being bored, I was told that "if you're bored, it just means that you're boring!"

On a similar note, the most intelligent person I believe I have ever met said, "...only dumb people get bored. Intelligent people have far too much to think about."

On the other hand, there is substantial evidence that highly intelligent children underperform or even begin to misbehave precisely because they are bored.

Thoughts on what is going on here....?
Intelligent people get more easily bored, as well as tired of human interaction in general. People who are more medium-intelligent are probably happier, since they seldom doubt things.
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I must be dumb as a stump, as I can't recall ever being bored in my life. No kidding. I've read boring books and seen boring films and known boring people and stuff, but I've never been actively bored. I'm not even sure what it's supposed to feel like.
It feels like your brain is stuffed with cold oatmeal. There's a pressure behind your eyes and a deep sadness. At least that's how I felt on rainy Sunday's as a kid. No one to play with and nothing on tv.
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I only skimmed through this thread - it's kind of boring...



I don't normally get bored, I just do something more interesting if I'm not enjoying whatever it is I am doing. However, I have had jobs before where the level of attention required was just high enough that I couldn't let my mind wander, but just low enough that it didn't interest me. Glad I'm out of that now.
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Oh boy. That's right up there with "only stupid people work in factories".
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