Boredom

I hear from so many youngsters today that they are getting bored. They get bored at home, they get bored in their new jobs, they get bored in their old jobs. They get bored. Period.

I was told by one of my professors, you never get bored if you have a craving to learn and grow. Over the years, I realised it too. There are people who blame others for their boredom, specially youngsters. They should realise if they are getting bored, the fault is not with their surroundings, the fault is within themselves.

If they feel sleepy while reading, its their own brain that shuts up to learning and wishes to sleep. Perhaps it is because they are young and think they have a lot of time, they waste it getting bored. A few years later, they will realise the folly of it all.

5 thoughts on “Boredom”

  1. Boredom

    I get bored when I get processable input at a rate slower than I can process it, or too fast.

    Kids get bored for the same reasons usually, I guess. It is not a question of whether you want to learn and grow, only a question of whether you are learning anything.

    1. Re: Boredom

      I was talking of people (and I see a lot of them) who get bored absorbing the information like reading an article or checking a peice of code!! So, while they have things to learn from, what they lack is initiative to open their minds and absorb the information being given to them and complain about getiing bored. It is not that they do not want to learn, they want every thing to be given (taught) to them on a platter!!

      1. Re: Boredom

        It’s a matter of presentation and perception.

        We had a paper on computer networks in the final semester of college. And everybody hated it. I just couldn’t get myself to read through the whole syllabus because it was so darn boring and didn’t make any sense at all. I scraped through the subject with 40-odd marks.

        I started working with Linux immediately after graduation and barely 2-3 months later I was sitting at home reading a book on networking(My friends thought I was nuts when I told them it was really interesting stuff) and I knew more about networks than we needed to know about in college.

        Similarly I tried learning Java from two different books while in college and didn’t get anywhere. At my first job, we had a book on Java lying around and within no time I was upto speed and from various online resources knew most of the new stuff that would get into Java2 specification even before it was released!(A lot of initial Java2 books got things wrong)

        And not everyone is a self-learner, almost everything I know, I learnt the RTFM way, but not everyone is comfortable or used to it. I always found it faster/more effective to train the team personally when there’s a new technology that I’d like them to use than handing them the docs and telling them to RTFM.

        1. Re: Boredom

          It is a matter of attitude.

          This is a workplace, not a college where professors are good or bad. Unfortunately a lot of new recruits think a corporate to be another college which worries me.

          And, I am talking of workplace scenario after the “personal” training period.

          If you want to grow in an organisation you have to take initiative. READ and learn. No one would hand hold and teach you or read for you. This is boredom expressed AFTER the personal training period during which you are trained personally I am referring to.

  2. yes, very often boredom stems from constipation between the ears.

    But sometimes..when one is in a class with a bad lecturer…when one is in company because one has to be, not because one wants it…in situations like these, boredom results too. But it’s transient…and usually, even in such situations, I think one can find enough grist for one’s humour mill, not to be bored!

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