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B1 Mittelstufe Englisch 12:25 Educational

Why Do We Get Bored?

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B1

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Untertitel (195 Segmente)

00:00

Hey, Vsauce. Michael here.

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Action and

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danger is exciting but this

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is a fake gun and the process

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of enlarging a hole, like the barrel of a gun, is called

00:14

boring. Boring. Boring a hole

00:18

is a slow process requiring repetitive movements from a tool that goes in

00:22

circles,

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which may be why things that are slow and repetitive and don't appear to be going

00:28

anywhere

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came to be described with the same word. They're boring. But why do we get

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bored and why does it matter? Evidence of being

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temporarily uninterested in anything happening - boredom -

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has been found as far back as ancient Pompeii.

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Boredom is a feeling we don't like. It's

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uncomfortable but it's trivial, right? I mean, boredom happens to all of us but

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now

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we have Facebook and Twitter and YouTube and texting and Candy Crush

00:58

to keep ourselves occupied. So, really,

01:02

who cares? Well, here's the thing.

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Physical pain, heartbreak and nausea are also

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uncomfortable but they're caused by dangerous

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serious toxic things, whereas boredom

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occurs when you are merely disinterested in the outside world

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and the inner world of your thoughts, when you are

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alone with just yourself. So,

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does the existence of boredom mean that when it really comes down to it life

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itself existing isn't really enough?

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Arthur Schopenhauer said that "if life possessed

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in itself a positive value in real content,

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there would be no such thing as boredom. Mere existence would fulfil

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and satisfied us." But apparently it doesn't

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because boredom exists. Is something wrong

01:56

with being, or is something

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awesome about us? Nearly 200 hundred years ago Giacomo Leopardi wrote in a

02:05

letter to his father

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"boredom is the most sublime of all human emotions because

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it expresses the fact that the human spirit, in a certain sense,

02:15

is greater than the entire universe. Boredom

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