{"id":236,"date":"2025-02-11T06:39:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T06:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/constantly-scrolling-on-your-phone-why-we-cant-stand-feeling-bored-well-actually-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T06:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T06:39:23","slug":"constantly-scrolling-on-your-phone-why-we-cant-stand-feeling-bored-well-actually-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/constantly-scrolling-on-your-phone-why-we-cant-stand-feeling-bored-well-actually-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Constantly scrolling on your phone? Why we can\u2019t stand feeling bored | Well actually | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Meaningless boredom occurs when we feel like what we\u2019re doing lacks meaning, Westgate says \u2013 for example, when a student says \u201cmath is boring\u201d because they can\u2019t understand how calculus relates to their life. Attentional boredom happens when \u201cwe can\u2019t do something because it is too hard or too easy for us, so we can\u2019t pay attention\u201d \u2013 for example, when a student says \u201cmath is boring\u201d because calculus is too advanced for them.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/wellness\/2025\/feb\/07\/boredom-explainer-good-or-bad\">www.theguardian.com\/wellness\/2025\/feb\/07\/boredom-explainer-good-or-bad<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meaningless boredom occurs when we feel like what we\u2019re doing lacks meaning, Westgate says \u2013 for example, when a student says \u201cmath is boring\u201d because they can\u2019t understand how calculus relates to their life. Attentional boredom happens when \u201cwe can\u2019t do something because it is too hard or too easy for us, so we can\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}