TOO MUCH EXCITEMENT IS POISONOUS

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The unprejudiced observer finds it hard to understand why these people should set such store by consistency of thought and action. Because oysters are occasionally pleasant, it does not follow that one should make of oysters one’s exclusive diet. Nor should one take castor oil every day because castor oil is occasionally good for one. Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. Consistent intellectualism and spirituality may be socially valuable, up to a point; but they make, gradually, for individual death. And individual death, when the slow murder has been consummated, is finally social death. So that the social utility of pure intellectualism and pure spirituality is only apparent and temporary.

Aldous Huxley, "Wordsworth in the Tropics" #enneatype7 #thaasophobia

The human mind is both complex and precarious as it never remains in the same state. Being busy a person can keep themself obsessed with some work; during work the mind often digresses somewhere . However , the mind becomes devilish when one is without any work. One resists boredom, sense of sin and unwanted feeling in state of jobless or deprivation of activity. If such hollowness continues for a long time one faces boredom.

There are two types of boredom namely one of which is situational boredom.

2) Situational boredom: this boredom is common that every normal human can perceive. It takes its essence from situation. We are situationally bored when we want to escape some unfavourable situation that makes us bored. 

Components of situational boredom are: 1) monotony . 2) lack of concentration 3) waiting. 4 solitude.

These four components are causes of situational boredom.

Importance of boredom:

To be bored is necessary for not only creativity but also for avoidance of some feeling . It follows that humans will constantly try to bring new ways of excitements and changes to invade boredom .The outcome of boredom thus leads to success. 

On the other hand , humans kill their inner world and extirpate their ways of happiness by much involvement in work; some freedom from work is vital to extinguish negativity of work so as to attain spirituality. Unending involvement with work destroys the essence of existence as we feel no boredom and find no way to bring a feeling of novelty and creativity. Too much boredom is dangerous; but too much excitement is poisonous.

Boredom is the main cause of every evil and misfortune that has occurred in the human history. Nevertheless, boredom is also the main cause of masterpieces in literature ,science, art...

What about TOO MUCH EXCITEMENT IS POISONOUS?

The first category is what I will term as general boredom; this is brought about by the lack of immediate stimulus, think of waiting in a doctor’s office in an age before the smartphone where you might find yourself looking at the wall for twenty minutes. This type is highly situation and necessarily transient. While elimination of this type of boredom would certainly be desired in the moment, it is not necessary in terms of the greater contest of life; it is by no means permanent. In today’s world there is incredible potential to occupy our time, nigh unlimited truth be told. Situational boredom can be solved by looking up the news or reading a free copy of “The Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle” on a Kindle app.

Much of the current research on boredom focusses on situational or state boredom. Fahlman et al. (2013) outlined five different elements to situational boredom that have garnered significant interests: one of which is slow passage of time.

In situational boredom there is common experience of time moving slowly. People often report a distorted sense of how much time has passed on a given activity (Danckert and Allman, 2005). If time flies when you are having fun, then time drags when you are bored. Individuals are more likely to focus on temporal information (i.e., stare at the clock) when they are not meaningfully engaged in an activity (Chaston and Kingstone, 2004). This practice likely adds to the experience of boredom.

-Danckert, J. A., and Allman, A. A. (2005). Time Flies When You’re Having Fun: Temporal Estimation and the Experience of Boredom. Brain Cognition, 59, 236–245.

-Chaston, A., and Kingstone, A. (2004). Time Estimation: The Effect of Cortically Mediated Attention. Brain and Cognition, 55(2), 286–289.