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///////////////////////////Albert Camus, who said (in The Plague):

"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits."

///////////////////////////////// experience of boredom (Eastwood et al., 2012):

• Frustrated: being unable to engage with a satisfying and interesting activity and finding this really frustrating.
• Meaningless: everything seems meaningless. Boredom is an existential crisis: you want to shout, "What is the bloody point?"
• Boring environment: feeling that everything and everyone around us is boring.

//////////////////////////////////three psychological strategies that people spontaneously use to cope with boredom (Nett et al., 2009):

• Reappraise: mentally work to increase the value or importance of the situation or activity.
• Criticise: change the situation to dispel the boredom.
• Evade: distraction with another activity.

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