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Originally Posted by jacab
Everyone has them. Moments of absolute boredom, when you do things you normally wouldn't. At home, at work, at the office.....these moments can hit anywhere and anyone.
Soooo.....therein is the question. What do you do when that moment of boredom comes over you?
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I don't know where you live, but you should try to just go for walk or go to a museum. One thing is for certain, I've been trying to loiter by my computer LESS when I'm bored. Net result? I go running, I meet with friends on occasion for dinner, and cleaning my office is next on my schedule of things, instead of being 1000.
If you are not in a metropolitan area with good museums and theaters, then I can highly recommend several books:
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Marquez (Nobel Laureate),
Ficciones by Borges (Also Nobel Laureate),
The Mind's I edited by Hofstadter and Dennett (I can highly recommend Turing's essays in there, as well as the ones by Lem), and
Hitler's Willing Executioners by Goldhagen.
The last one is a bit of a downer, though intellectually engrossing.
Or, click the link in the my sig to buy one of our walking tours. It's the next best thing to being there.
Well....I can't promise. :)
Payam