If you’re anything like me, you have a complicated relationship with boredom. We live in a culture that values entertainment and productivity, with little room for idle time. But maybe that’s what we all need. Columnist Katherine Martinko makes the case for embracing boredom, which she describes as a pathway to something bigger and better. She writes: “Boredom, at its best, sparks creativity. It is an intensely uncomfortable temporary state that children (and adults) must move through in order to reach the other side, where they will discover new interests, skills and hobbies.”
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