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\u2026 \u201dI’m just bored and tired all the time.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Your brain is like a beautiful garden. If you never plant new seeds or pull out the weeds, the garden gets messy and boring. Boredom is like “mental rust”\u2014it means your engine is sitting still for too long! To get your spark back, you need to find a new game to play or a new flower to plant.
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Why This Happens:<\/strong> Your body tries to be “energy efficient” by doing as little as possible, but this leads to “stagnation” and a loss of your “durable” positive version. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Fix It:<\/strong> Seek a healthy “Stretch”. Find one small thing that is slightly difficult but exciting. This “stretches” your mental muscles without causing “strain”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Context<\/strong>: British researcher Stephen Williams<\/strong> described the “Performance Curve” where we must move out of boredom to reach our “Peak”. Moving from “stagnation” to a “constructive version of yourself” that adapts to daily challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2026 \u201dI’m just bored and tired all the time.” Your brain is like a beautiful garden. If you never plant new seeds or pull out the weeds, the garden gets messy and boring. Boredom is like “mental rust”\u2014it means your engine is sitting still for too long! To get your spark back, you need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodwords.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodwords.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodwords.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodwords.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodwords.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goodwords.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/goodwords.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodwords.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodwords.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodwords.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}