Dr. John Eastwood is a psychologist and professor who has studied the benefits of boredom. Despite a better understanding of its upsides, a much bigger question remains: Why do we experience boredom at all? That jives with much of the contemporary thinking about why we experience boredom. The Norwegian writer Lars Svendsen, author of A Philosophy of Boredom, calls the experience of boredom a "meaning hangover." York's John Eastwood says we should all probably get better at "tolerating unstimulating experiences," but that there's no need to "wallow" in them.

Source: CBC News November 22, 2016 10:00 UTC