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#Boredom is important:
https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/21/bertrand-russell-boredom-conquest-of-happiness/
Bertrand Russell on the Vital Role of Boredom and “Fruitful Monotony” in Human Flourishing

“A generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation… in whom every vital impulse slowly withers, as though they were cut flowers in a vase.”

The Marginalian
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> "A certain power of enduring boredom is therefore essential to a happy life, and is one of the things that ought to be taught to the young" ... the great childhood joy and developmental achievement of learning to “do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself,” a testament to #Kierkegaard’s insistence that “the more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.” ..
#BertrandRussel quoted with others by #TheMarginalian's #MariaPopova
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