Next, he tried a little retail therapy, buying a Herman Miller chair and a karaoke set. But he couldn’t keep that up for long. (“Not exactly sustainable on the wallet,” he says.) ...

At face value, boredom can appear to be a trivial problem. Compared to rampant infection, job losses and death, griping about a few unfilled hours can seem a bit self-centred.

This Collection aims to advance our theoretical understanding of boredom, improve the methods used to study boredom, and consider practical applications for managing boredom in real-world settings.

This Collection aims to advance our theoretical understanding of boredom, improve the methods used to study boredom, and consider practical applications for managing boredom in real-world settings.

But that boredom is the signal you’ve achieved mastery. You’ll be quitting at the moment when it’s most costly to do so. Only a mastered trade can be properly monetized.

Alice Guérin, you might think, is just bored. Daydreaming and boredom are easy to confuse. That we need to admit. But looking like Alice Guérin is not quite the way that you look when you’re ...

While mind-numbing tedium is never the goal, it can often be the source of great art, writes Clare Thorp. “I don’t know where I am going, but I promise it won’t be boring,” David Bowie ...

Boredom tends to confront, while daydreaming looks away. Matisse thought the woman was daydreaming, but he got it wrong. The traditional images of daydreaming and of boredom, as you can see, are ...