The text is based on Finkielsztein, M. (2021). Boredom and Academic Work. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 38-42. What is boredom seems to be pretty obvious in our globalized world but do different languages and cultures actually understand it in the same way? Do the closest equivalents of the Anglo-Saxon ‘boredom’ in other languagesContinue reading “Do various languages understand boredom in the same way?”
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BOREDOM MYTHS 2: “Intelligent people never get bored” or WHY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE (ALSO) GET BORED
As the popular statement goes, intelligent people never get bored. And since, as Descartes noted, the reason is the best-distributed thing in the world – as everyone thinks they are well supplied with it – the greater part of humanity maintains that they are never bored. However, as Flaubert pointed out some time ago, humanContinue reading “BOREDOM MYTHS 2: “Intelligent people never get bored” or WHY INTELLIGENT PEOPLE (ALSO) GET BORED”
BOREDOM MYTHS 1: “Everybody knows what boredom is” or DOES EVERYBODY SEES WHAT BOREDOM (ACTUALLY) IS?
The pandemic has powerfully revealed something that has generally remained hidden – boredom lurking in every corner (of our homes). But do we really know what it actually is?Following various discussions about boredom on the Internet or among friends as a boredom researcher, I notice that people often misunderstand this phenomenon and divide themselves intoContinue reading “BOREDOM MYTHS 1: “Everybody knows what boredom is” or DOES EVERYBODY SEES WHAT BOREDOM (ACTUALLY) IS?”
MARIUSZ FINKIELSZTEIN, Ph.D. 