This article is organized in numerical order, there are steps. The authors tone is optimistic, she seems cheerful about informing us of ways to escape boredom. This article is about some steps to not be bored, there are seven steps. After the article gives each step it gives a short explanation of what it means or an example of how to do it. In some of the steps it will give a quote, for example "-– Dig in. As they say, if you can’t get out of it, get into it. Diane Arbus wrote, “The Chinese have a theory that you pass through boredom into fascination and I think it’s true.” If something is boring for two minutes, do it for four minutes. If it’s still boring, do it for eight minutes, then sixteen, and so on. Eventually you discover that it’s not boring at all. If part of my research isn’t interesting to me — like the Dardanelles campaign for Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill — I read a whole book about it, and then it becomes absorbing. The same principle holds when doing boring or irritating tasks, like doing laundry." or, "– Consider: “Am I the boring one?” La Rochefoucauld observed, “We always get bored with those whom we bore.” I remind myself of this when I’m having a boring conversation with someone!". For everyone in the world, this article gives us tips on how not to be bored, it may even make people more interesting.
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