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Have We Lost Our Tolerance For a Little Boredom?

Cal Newport · 4 Feb 2009 · calnewport.com

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  1. Exceptional things — be it ideas, writing, mathematics, or art — require hard work. This, in turn, requires boring stretches during which you ignore a mind pleading with you to seek novel stimuli