He uses these examples to show that doing nothing can be the key to getting somewhere. Colin then reveals that he lives in a “surfing suburb”, and tells that he sees groups of people with differing ages gathering to observe the surf. He suggests that these people have zoned out and are using watching the surf as an excuse to stare off into space. He tells us that workplace boredom – watching the clock anticipating the time you are going to be off – is not the type of boredom that he is speaking of. He ends with saying that the type of boredom you have when you decide to catch up on television shows before tackling the future, is the reason that God created bed sores and cramps. I am not sure if I agree or disagree with this author. I would like to be wonderfully rich and not worry about making bills, but then again I would get bored if I did nothing all day. That’s the type of bored he warns us against saying that we have to move. He does make a good point that highly intelligent physicists and philosophers achieved great things through the act of doing nothing but sitting staring into space and thinking. I enjoyed reading this article and it made me rethink boredom! I also think that his suggestion of why God created bed sores and cramps is very clever and
He uses these examples to show that doing nothing can be the key to getting somewhere. Colin then reveals that he lives in a “surfing suburb”, and tells that he sees groups of people with differing ages gathering to observe the surf. He suggests that these people have zoned out and are using watching the surf as an excuse to stare off into space. He tells us that workplace boredom – watching the clock anticipating the time you are going to be off – is not the type of boredom that he is speaking of. He ends with saying that the type of boredom you have when you decide to catch up on television shows before tackling the future, is the reason that God created bed sores and cramps. I am not sure if I agree or disagree with this author. I would like to be wonderfully rich and not worry about making bills, but then again I would get bored if I did nothing all day. That’s the type of bored he warns us against saying that we have to move. He does make a good point that highly intelligent physicists and philosophers achieved great things through the act of doing nothing but sitting staring into space and thinking. I enjoyed reading this article and it made me rethink boredom! I also think that his suggestion of why God created bed sores and cramps is very clever and