“Bore-out”— Burnout’s Ugly Stepsister

How to recognise it and how to “get out”

Peter John K
Big Self
Published in
9 min readMay 11, 2021

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So — is boredom good or bad?

On the one hand, there is the “in-the-moment” boredom described by Manoush Zomorodi in her recent book “Bored and Brilliant”, in which our mind wanders, using the down-time to process ideas subconsciously and boost our creativity.

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Peter John K
Big Self

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