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Blame it on boredom or on too much time studying the accumulating dust on the fan blades, but these past few weeks, I've become obsessed with cleaning my house.
According to Csikszentmihalyi (1975), when a person is working on a task, if the task is far below the one's ability, it will induce boredom; on the contrary, if the task is far above the one's ability, it will induce anxiety.
He pointed to "the boredom one senses on all sides, the torpor, the anxiety, the listlessness".
"On a sunny afternoon when everyone is outside, one would do best to hang about in the train station or, better yet, stay at home, draw the curtains, and surrender oneself to one's boredom on the sofa," he wrote.
When their bouts of rumination were over, the students rated their enjoyment and boredom on a scale from one (not at all) to nine (extremely), with a midpoint of five (somewhat).
When Chow amiably rejects the advances of a pretty young prostitute (Ziyi Zhang) who's fallen for him, Mr. Leung puts a subtle edge of boredom on the rebuff, which makes it cut like a knife.
It's the uncouth teenager who wears his boredom on the outside.
It is also probably the densest concentration of potential boredom on earth.
And the look of perfectly detached boredom on his face as he did it will haunt me until I die.
