Take the challenge: Can you part with your smartphone?

Since the advent of smartphones, boredom seems to have disappeared from our lives. And since the advent of smartphones, there is rarely a moment when it is not within reach. They have become a conditioned reflex to boredom, as shown by a recent study by the Flurry research group, which found that the average owner of a blue phone uses the latter for almost three hours a day.

2 hours and 57 minutes to be precise. Is that too much? Or because of all the texting, tweeting, emails, etc. between the fingers important moments slip by in life? If you are interested in an in-depth analysis of these questions, we recommend you listen to the podcast New Tech City (WNYC) where they note that they are smartphones banished boredom. Yeeeee… But where's the trick?

The team of the mentioned series had an abortion project Bored and Brilliant: The Lost Art of Spacing Out and started getting people to start using application Moment (measures how many times we unlock the device and how long we use it) and based on the findings, they then reduce it a dose of digital interaction.

Who would have thought that we would miss boredom?

And although they convince us that it is playing games it fuels our creativity, this is not the case, as it only improves the result. The best ideas come when we are not constantly bombarded with stimulation, so we have to allow ourselves to get bored. These findings come from studies by psychiatrist Sandi Mann, who asked the test subjects to first do something that really bored them. Then they tackle the creative task. And the result? Reading the phone book is much more stimulating than information flood. Mann is therefore on a mission to enter our lives brings back boredom.

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It is also your smartphone's on-call entertainer that keeps you away from boredom.

Namely, it is only when we are bored that we look for something that will stimulate us. Because our mind moves above consciousness due to this state and into a subconscious state, different neural patterns are woven in the head. This and more psychological effects will also cover the Bored and Brilliant project, which is starting first week of February and in which you can also participate (registration). New Tech City will collect stories and derive from them tips on how to cut the umbilical cord that binds you to your smartphone. Because this attachment has become sick, as evidenced by the article below from the streets of New York.