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State Shift #6: Why Your Brain Needs Boredom
When was the last time you did absolutely nothing? Not Netflix. Not a podcast. Not scrolling in the pickup line. Nothing.
For most of us, that's weirdly hard to answer.
In this episode of State Shift, we're talking about why your brain needs boredom. We've gotten so uncomfortable with empty space that we fill every red light, waiting room and walk with something. Even the relaxing stuff is still input.
We get into what your brain is actually doing when you're "doing nothing" (spoiler: a lot), why closing 10 fun tabs doesn't help when you still have 25 work tabs open, why the first few minutes…
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