Eli5 what can sustained periods of boredom do to your brain
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Make you come up with interesting ideas.
And eventually drive you insane if you’re not allowed to act on any of those ideas.
It can slow down your cognitive abilities. Many skills are lost without practice or activity. For example, if you stay long periods of time without practicing a language or a sport, you start losing the skills. You lose certain reflexes like if you stop driving for a long time you eventually forget how to. So basically, any area of your brain that doesn’t get enough stimulation moves on to something else. The brain needs stimulation and activity to stay young and healthy. Boredom is essentially lack of pleasure or lack of activity or both. So if you’re doing nothing all the time or you’re unmotivated and not enjoying anything you’re doing, your brain loses abilities, you stop learning, and with time, because of lack of pleasure and motivation, you can become depressive as pleasure is essential to human health and the human brain.
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