Convenience and boredom | Seth’s Blog

The final fifty a long time have seen a all over the world energy to optimize one particular and get rid of the other.

Marketers and technologists do the job overtime to develop comfort. We have absent from hunting and expanding our food to pressing three buttons on a phone to get it…

And the charge of that convenience is substantial. We give up privateness, handle and satisfaction to get it, in every single corner of our lives.

At the identical time, the market place has figured out that we only do not like to be bored. And so there is far more stimulation, far more possibilities and additional sounds than at any time in advance of.

The problem is that boredom is a associate with fulfillment and joy. It is tricky to overstimulate ourselves into those people feelings.