The Power of Boredom

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Our tolerance for boredom is diminishing quickly. </strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>In this age of distraction it is so easy to fill our boredom with work activities and quick entertainment.  But avoiding boredom prevents us from using it to create a life full of meaning and purpose.   </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Teacher counsellor and philosopher Mark Hawkins gets to the core of why boredom is a powerful human emotion.  Drawing from psychology philosophy and personal experiences Mark shows us that boredom can be seen as spaces in time containing pure creative potential available for self and life transformation. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Along the way Mark provides a perspective of boredom that can sometimes be counter-intuitive. For example why busy people may in fact be the most bored and why filling your boredom with the wrong things can actually create more of it. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>It's time to stop distracting yourself from life and start living it.</span></p><p><br></p>