PSYCHOLOGY – Our brain needs vacation time to digest events and be creative.
March 2020. The first confinement has just started. French people are organizing video meetings without delay, announcing on social networks that they are going to re-read their ten favorite books, are embarking on online training, even learning a foreign language. Their isolation has barely begun when they multiply their strategies to kill time. No question of languishing. Truly?
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“Being bored is chewing time”, wrote the philosopher Emil Cioran. Boredom is the enemy of modern times. This idleness which gives the impression that the minutes pass endlessly creates an impression of emptiness, which has become intolerable in our time characterized by the possibility of immediate satisfaction. “The fight against boredom has never been so effective”confirms the psychiatrist Patrick Lemoine, author of an essay on the subject (Praise of Boredom – A Brief History of Us, Editions du Relié). Mobile phones constantly offer us information…
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