- "Boredom is the pain of emotional and intellectual discontent. It is a crisis—that awful realization that what was promised or expected is not what is offered. While bored, we stand face-to-face with a task, situation, or world that feels emptied out of possibilities for worthwhile engagement, and our motivational capacities are thrown into confusion, as though we have an itch but cannot figure out how to scratch it. (...) {It} disturbs and challenges us. It throws us back to ourselves, exposing our inability to be proper agents while simultaneously challenging us to reclaim our agency." — in: In Praise of Boring Art, by John Gibson and Andreas Elpidorou.
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