Normally, boredom arises in response to monotonous and dull situations, and it evaporates the moment the environment changes.
If we have no sense of being stuck, we simply leave dull situations.
And I found that everyone at MIT retained this same childlike curiosity: always asking why, finding fascination in even the dullest situation, and most important, taking advantage of serendipity.
The site's three founders, who met at Brown University and previously ran the music download service Amie Street, explained in an interview at the company's bare-bones headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, that elaborate thinking sometimes went into creating playlists for the dullest situations.
Each of these points of view is stated with clear positions, waging debates with each other in a tit-for-tat manner, breaking the dull and inactive situation of many years in the academic field of "nation studies" (Ma Rong, 2015).
In a country with such treasure and beauty, maybe hardship is dulled and the situation hasn't become quite bad enough.
Peering into INSTINCTUAL DRIFT, what looks like some sort of leisurely feast from ancient times cracks into various fragments that reveal a congested traffic jam, rendered in black and white as if to emphasize the dull, pointlessness of the situation.
If your knife goes dull in a survival situation, you might as well have no knife at all.
And then, while this situation continues, somehow dull and melodramatic simultaneously.
It started out as quite a dull discussion but as the hypothetical situation escalated – and boy did it escalate quickly – it fast became compelling, if not terrifying, viewing.
