Why We Get Bored | Erin Westgate
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Tim, I have a question for you. Okay. If you had to sit alone with your thoughts for 20 minutes, or you had the opportunity to push a button to give yourself an uncomfortable electric shock, which would you choose? Well, that's easy for me, uh, Kurt, because, you know, I like to sit with my thoughts. I I enjoy it.
Um, who would choose the shock? You know, who would want to shock themselves? I I might. Come on. I mean, I like to sit with my my thoughts, but I mean, 20 minutes of just sitting there in a boring room with no stimulation, like you have to feel like there's like I get you'd get bored.
Right? I don't find it boring. I I find my inner thoughts actually kind of stimulating. I don't know what's wrong with that. Yeah, well, let's put you in a in a blank white room for 20 minutes with a with a shock thing set up and we'll see.
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