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How Boredom can be a Force for Good or Bad (BBC News)

2/17/2021

 
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It's a pleasure for us to be featured in this article on BBC news, in which Dr. Erin Westgate, alongside other experts, discusses boredom, its consequences, and ways to deal with it during COVID.

"Boredom is our brain telling us it’s time to do something different", says James Danckert, a professor of cognitive neuroscience at the University of Waterloo. But does that something need to be bad? 


At a time of pandemic during which, according to Dr. Westgate, people are universally experiencing a loss of control, how do we fix boredom? How do we find the right, and good, alternative?

Check out the article written by Sara Harrison!
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