The Old Art of Being Bored Why Boredom Is Not the Enemy of a Good Life
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
05.07.2026
Verlag
Independently publishedSeitenzahl
116
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/0,6 cm
Gewicht
167 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798185386934
We check our phones over a hundred times a day. We fill every silence, every red light, every idle minute with something to watch, read, or scroll. And somewhere along the way, we lost an old, quietly essential human skill: the ability to be bored.
The Old Art of Being Bored traces one simple, overlooked idea across two thousand years of human thought - from desert monks who battled a restless "noonday demon," to Blaise Pascal's warning that we cannot sit quietly in a room alone, to Kierkegaard calling boredom "the root of all evil," to Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Heidegger's radically different takes on why an empty moment feels so unbearable. It travels east into Buddhist and Taoist teachings on stillness and emptiness, then lands firmly in the present - inside the neuroscience of dopamine, the deliberate design of the apps in your pocket, and what modern psychology has actually discovered about why your brain needs to be bored sometimes.
Along the way, you'll learn:
- Why the desert monks feared boredom more than hunger or loneliness - and what they did about it
- The real psychological mechanism your phone's infinite scroll is built to exploit
- Why some of history's best ideas arrived during walks, showers, and daydreams - not focused effort
- What contemporary psychology says actually happens in your brain when you're under-stimulated
- A practical, twelve-part guide for reclaiming boredom in a world engineered to eliminate it
This isn't a book about quitting your phone or romanticizing discomfort. It's an invitation to understand one of the most misunderstood experiences in modern life - and to rediscover the freedom that's been quietly waiting on the other side of it.
Part history of philosophy, part neuroscience, part practical guide, The Old Art of Being Bored is for anyone who has ever felt a flicker of panic when their phone battery drops below 10%, and wondered what they're really running from.
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