Boredom

The mental activity of mind wandering has been a significant topic in cognitive psychology, as it seems to be a challenge to education. Mind wandering is an unconscious behaviour where the mind is pre-occupied with unrelated thoughts, influencing attention on current tasks. A constantly growing theoretical framework has developed research concerning the cognitive and neural basis of the phenomenon by introducing reliable experimental procedures (Smallwood, 2013). The experimental procedures have…

Reality Hunger I thought my torture would never end. This novel is so overrated and useless. I wouldn't even classify this book as a novel due to it being so gimmicky and Shields is very much a hypocrite in my opinion. David Shields talks about his boredom with the “traditional form of the novel.” I do believe that there are numerous genre-bending novels around, in which the authors of those books wanted to write a form of literature that was creative, nontraditional, and different. He makes…

Many commencement speeches are inspiring and speak to all of the graduating students that are stepping into the workforce. David Foster Wallace’s speech focused on the life ahead of the students, who will be day in and day out in days filled with boredom, harsh frustrations and the same routine of daily life. When I first read the quote, it showed a story behind the commencement speech. The quote speaks to the autopilot lives that we are living, where we are unknowingly tangled in a rat race…

This step is so crucial because if you pick a show that you don’t find interesting you will eventually give up out of boredom or frustration. Any genre that appeals to you will work. Whether it is action, comedy, romance, or fantasies as long as you love it watch it. However even though a show may be the type of genre that you like, be sure to look at the reviews before…

“Outside each cave is another cave; beyond the game is another game. Each has its particular rules; each has its ranks of high scores. Is that all there is? The gamer who lifts an eye from the target risks a paralyzing boredom” (Wark). The central argument of Wark’s piece is that gaming creates worlds that, despite their ephemerality and lack of connection to the mandate for productivity in the real world, gaming allows for a resistance to the hegemony of the…

convenience sake. Arguments associated with Ashley’s rights were also raised. Conversely, others such as Ashley’s parents and parents of other disabled children argued that the ‘Ashley Treatment’ would help mitigate challenges such as discomfort and boredom. Attenuating her growth meant she could be moved around more easily which would benefit her health and well being. Furthermore, she would be less prone to infections and free from menstrual cramps, possible pregnancies and uterine cancer. …

to become slaves of society and its demands by sharing his personal experiences, becoming consumers, and the solution to schooling. In the beginning the “Against School” Gatto describes his own personal experience in the school, which included boredom. He describes himself sitting in a classroom and never paying attention due to the information that was being displayed to him. He wanted to learn, but was not attentive. He then heard from his grandfather that being bored is his own fault.…

Once in your lifetime, you may have questioned the purpose of everyday schooling; you may have even shown your hate for it. One person in particular took his hate for school to a new level. John Gatto was a school teacher, who absolutely hate the system. Against School is an essay he wrote expressing his hate for it. Against School shows what the school systems of late are about and how, as he says, it “cripples our kids” (Gatto). He used rhetoric, a form of persuasive communication, in order to…

the project and their phones. In April 2017, she gave a presentation explaining more on her theory at TED2017. Zomorodi expounds upon the facts and emotions caused by her Bored and Brilliant project and the ideas behind it. In her TED talk, “How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas,” Manoush Zomorodi juxtaposes…

Black Boy is an account of a young African-American boy’s thoughts and obstacles growing up in the South, whose family lives in poverty and experience constant hunger. The main character in the story is Richard Wright, who is born in 1908. Richard opens the book with a description of himself as a four-year-old boy in Natchez Mississippi, and his family’s later move to Memphis. It describes his rebellious attitude against his parents and his days spent on the streets while his mother is at work.…