With attention spans growing smaller, impatience is increasing. The more you feel stuck in the situation—listening to a co-worker’s weekend escapades, waiting in line for a cup of coffee, sitting in a ...

Boredom isn’t just a random state of mind—it’s your brain’s way of telling you that something’s missing. When you’re bored out of your mind, it’s like life has hit pause and you’re stuck in a loop of ...

There’s no hard and fast rule for how much time you should aim to practice boredom for each week. But it’s important to start ...

L ectures are boring. Assignments are busy work. And all of that tuition is for this? When Justin Shaffer hears these kinds of complaints from students, he thinks they have a point. He also thinks ...

Bored? Stop scrolling and try one of these tech-free activities — from brushing up on basic life skills to reconnecting with your spouse. (Getty Images) If you find yourself doom-scrolling or ...

Jodi and Marshall are the parents of Oliver (7), a highly sensitive child who is very self-conscious and avoids any activity that feels performative, like PE, music, or giving a book report to his ...

Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Changes in memory as you get older—frustrating as they might be—are completely normal. “It might become ...

Feeling uninterested during a conversation is something everyone deals with, but the subtle things highly intelligent people don't realize they do when they're bored in conversations aren't exactly ...

You might already be one of the millions around the world using ChatGPT to help out with mundane tasks and automate menial chores. But ChatGPT is capable of much more than just answers and automations ...

Whether you’ve tried mat Pilates or reformer, you only have to do it once to understand that knowing what to wear to Pilates class is crucial. Hilary Duff is the first famous person I can recall ...