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This is really, really sad. If this had always been the case, most of the world’s inventions and art, including entertainment, wouldn’t exist today. It’s objectively a fact that people need to be bored/idle to be at their most creative.

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LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You really think artists don’t also consume art? Heck, what inspired me to make music is listening to music.

Also, I do like your misuse of the word “objectively” and “fact”.

No, that’s not true at all. Proneness to boredom is actually a predictor of negative mental health outcomes: www.sciencedirect.com/…/S019188691930217X

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- TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Huge strawman. No one would ever ever ever ever ever say that and you’re well aware.
  
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  - LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Did you mean to reply to yourself?
    
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- TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If you have any care for your mental health, use any search engine to search the phrase “benefits of boredom”. You will find hundreds of articles telling you what I am.
  
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  - LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    “Do your own research!”
    
    Meanwhile you ignore an actual cited source. It’s like poetry, or something.
    
    I never said boredom doesn’t have benefits either. I said that your claim of people being the most creative at their most bored is not objective, it’s insane hyperbole and an insane thing to claim in general, very obviously so.
    
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    TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    You’re a troll.
    
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