Have We Lost Our Tolerance For a Little Boredom?
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Work that matters requires tolerating discomfort and boredom rather than escaping into distraction.
Their wordsExceptional 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
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