Ireceive a free daily newsletter in my email called 1440. It highlights all kinds of things — and offers links for further research if I'm interested. Today I found myself watching a short YouTube video titled, “You Need to Be Bored. Here's Why.”

A curious title for sure. Boredom is something most people try to avoid, so to read I actually need it was too much to resist. I wanted to know more.

It turns out our brain has something called a “default mode network” when we have nothing else going on. This is when we might be “forced” into thinking about our life. Why am I here anyway? Does what I'm doing matter? Do I even matter?

Not the most comfortable questions. So being the devious humans we are, we figure out ways to avoid thinking about anything too bothersome. These days we have come

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