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”