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Is it really so bad to be alone with your thoughts? In 2014, psychologist Timothy D. Wilson published a study in which participants preferred electrocuting themselves rather than sitting in silence for several minutes. Literally. They knew it hurt. And yet they pressed the button anyway. Why? In this episode, I examine boredom – a phenomenon we avoid so much that we've almost lost understanding of it. I'll talk about: – the "worm grinding" experiment, which shows that boredom can drive destructive behavior, – research on digital switching and how scrolling paradoxically increases boredom, – Sandi Mann's experiment, which showed that monotony can increase creativity, – Wijnand van Tilburg's work on how boredom affects nostalgia, meaning in life, and radicalization, – and Thomas Goetz's classification of five types of boredom. This isn't a film about "things were better back then." This isn't moralizing. It's an attempt to answer the question of whether, by avoiding every moment of silence, we're depriving ourselves of something very important. Maybe the problem isn't that we're bored. Maybe the problem is that we can't stand the first few minutes of tension. Or maybe it's precisely in this discomfort that something worthwhile begins. If you made it to the end—thanks. This is the best proof that 15 minutes without skipping is possible. Inspirations:    • Jezioro Aralskie - jak z czwartego najwięk...      • Szczepionki a autyzm | Słowo na sobotę #16   Sources: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s... https://archive.org/details/daydreami... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... _the_relation_of_boredom_and_sadistic_aggression https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-1... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/... https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1... https://link.springer.com/article/10....