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You can't stand thirty seconds at a traffic light without pulling out your cell phone. Okay, me neither. This video is about what we had to kill to never feel bored again — and about a room, a button, and a real electric shock that prove that humans will do almost anything to avoid being alone with their own minds. Chapters: 00:00 — The reflection of the traffic light 03:41 — What's waiting in the silence 07:09 — The excuse for missing something 10:44 — The shock experiment 14:28 — Boredom is a muscle, not a state 18:04 — The crooked closure Mentioned here: Pascal, Schopenhauer (and his poodles), Timothy Wilson's study (University of Virginia, 2014), and Arthur Brooks' provocation that brought up this subject.