? A little monotony can be a good thing, especially when you feel stressed. Esther, Senior Lecturer, Department of Education, University of East Anglia? Dr. Priyadarsini said? We all need to stop work and stay away from the constant bombing of nerve stimulation. We don't need to be in a frenzy at all times. ?
When life is full of routine and monotonous meetings, we may become the victims of boredom. But is boredom necessarily a bad thing?
The Daily Mail reported that last week, psychologists reported that at work? Bored? Bored? It may have a positive effect on creativity, because it gives the brain a chance to empty.
This is not a new argument. For a long time, people think that boredom is the driving force of creativity. Last year, the famous neuroscientist Barnes? Baroness Greenfield also suggested that boredom may also be a good thing for children. It can not only encourage them to develop their imagination, but also enable them to develop a certain personality in the process of having to find something to do.
Boredom not only affects creativity, but also affects mood, weight and health. It may be harmful or beneficial, and most importantly, how should we deal with it.
Psychosomatic disorder
A study in the United States found that boredom is related to depression. Psychologists at Harvard University use a method called. Track your happiness? IPhone emotional tracking application monitors the psychological state of more than 2,000 people. They found that people who can concentrate on specific tasks or things are usually happier than those who are empty-headed and bored. The research results were published in the journal Science. ? Before depression, there is usually a period of boredom, which means that boredom can lead to depression. ? The researchers said.
At work, research shows that people who are often bored are more likely to suffer from underload syndrome, which is a state of poor health or depression due to lack of challenge or motivation at work, and this bad state and mood will develop a series of joint physical symptoms, including depression, headache, fatigue and even multiple infections. In other words, boredom and stress have the same effect on the body, which will increase the stress hormone level of the human body and have a negative impact on health.
Psychologists at Northumbria University have found that ambitious people are more sensitive to boredom because they are competent enough to finish their work without any pressure. Because of this, they are more likely to suffer from undermotivation syndrome.
Not only that, the dull atmosphere may make people eat more junk food. Sandy, a psychologist at Lancashire University? A study by Dr Sandiman shows that a quarter of office workers often complain that they are bored for a long time, so they need a lot of coffee and chocolate to boost their mood. Bored office workers are also more likely to have a drink after work. Dr Mann presented her research results at the meeting of the British Psychological Association last year: the most important reason for boredom is the low-demand workload, which often brings a heavier burden to the body.
A few years ago, researchers from the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London pointed out that those who often complained that they were super bored were 2.5 times more likely to die of heart disease or stroke than those who were satisfied with their fate. This may be because they feel too bored and get into the habit of drinking and smoking. Over time, this will lead to weight gain and other risk factors of heart disease. Epidemiologist Martin? Shipley said? People who are bored at work should find some hobbies to pass the monotonous time. ?
Maybe everyone has a different threshold for boredom. Generally speaking, men are more likely to fall into boring complaints than women, so they are often considered as? An exciting tracker? . Professor Peter of the University of Calgary, Canada? Peter Toohey mentioned in his book Boredom that boredom is also related to the amount of dopamine in a person's brain. Other studies have also found that people with low levels of this compound in the brain are more likely to be bored for longer and more times. Professor Tu Shi put forward:? Boredom makes the connection between brain cells more difficult, and certain aerobic exercise can effectively prevent boredom. ?
A little monotony is also a good thing.
Although most studies show that boredom may lead to emotional loss or even depression, and at the same time lead to eating food indiscriminately, eventually leading to various diseases, but? A little monotony may be a good thing, especially when you feel stressed? Esther, Senior Lecturer, Department of Education, University of East Anglia? Dr. Esther Priyad Hashni said? We all need to stop work and stay away from the constant bombing of nerve stimulation. We don't need to be in a frenzy at all times. ?
Last year, psychologist Mary? Professor Mary Immordino-Yang found that some people often go through the process of self-reflection when they are bored, which can relieve their anxiety and make them more active. These people perform better in exams and work.
Jackie, a professor of psychology at Plymouth University in England, said that boring emptiness even helps to improve memory. Jackie Andrade compared how 40 subjects recalled the details of a boring phone message in one and a half minutes, and found that those who were bored enough to scribble during the whole process could remember more information than those who sat still. ? Boring graffiti may help us deal with a boring task with more peace of mind. ? Dr andrade said.
Even being bored will help more people. The study found that some boring people feel that their lives are meaningless, and this idea encourages them to participate in what the researchers say? Prosocial behavior? Medium. University of limerick psychologist Vega? Where is it? After a series of studies, Dr. Wijnand van Tilburg found that bored people are less easily distracted by some fun, and they are more motivated to do more meaningful things. ? Boredom will make people more eager to participate in different and meaningful activities, so they will turn to more challenging and meaningful activities, such as donating money to charity or donating blood regularly. ? Dr tilburg said.
Help control weight
There are other more favorable views about boredom. Some studies show that boredom also has some positive significance for weight control. Research conducted by Vermont State University and the University of Buffalo shows that after eating macaroni and cheese for a week, women consume 65,438+000 fewer calories per day than usual. First of all, eating the same food every day will make people feel bored and won't eat too much, so people with rich diets, whether obese or not, will consume more calories every week. Just as drug addicts are used to taking a drug, they need to take more and more doses to produce efficacy. Similarly, eating the same food all the time will weaken the body's response to heat. Is this the so-called? Habituation? . Humans have a habitual threshold, which is why you listen to the same song too many times and eventually become boring. ? This is also useful for food. ? Leonard, who led this research? Professor Leonard Epstein said. However, food can not be completely simplified, and too much restriction on diet will make the human body unable to get enough nutrition.
In addition, some small moves caused by boredom may also play a role in losing weight and fitness. If you find yourself fidgeting because of boredom, start tapping your fingers on the table? This may have a positive effect on your health and weight. In a 2008 study, nutritionists at Iowa State University monitored the different daily exercise patterns of obese and slim women. They found that thin people are more prone to fidgeting, which consumes about 300 calories a day.
Other Canadian researchers published a research report in the journal Sports Medicine and Science, pointing out that those sedentary people, if they can't adhere to the expert advice of exercising for 30 minutes every day, tapping their fingers, bumping between their legs under the table or just fidgeting (maybe only occasionally) are also some feasible aerobic exercises.
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