Boredom, avoidance

Avoid boredom—if operators don t have anything to do, they go to sleep—mentally, if not physically. 

Use a variety of different approaches to avoid boredom during revision (e.g. record information on audio tape, use cartoons, or any other method, as long as it s not just reading notes ). 

Vary sentence lengths to avoid boredom. If possible and feasible, use active rather than passive voice. 

If possible, vary your work routine to avoid boredom. 

People whose minds are active and whose necessary work does not fill the entire day have a strong need to be stimulated by new ideas and sensations. If you cannot exist alone, but need others to avoid boredom, you will find that you are necessarily subject to their random tastes and desires, which can impede you from finding ways to fill your empty moments, since these will not depend on yourself... 

But whether nature has treated you well or badly, do not forget that your aim must be the renewed pleasure of being busy each day, of doing something which ensures your independence, protects you from boredom and prevents the vague distaste for existence and unexplained depression which afflict otherwise peaceful and successful lives. I shall not tell you to avoid the pleasures and sorrows of vanity, but ensure that it does not dominate you, that its pleasures do not become the reward of your efforts, nor the pain it causes prevent you from making an effort. Ensure that you view both pleasure and pain as an inevitable tribute which wisdom itself must pay to human weakness. 

Sason To avoid boredom, I usually tell the students/readers about the significance of the molecules we make, something about history, and sometimes funny stories (e.g., the discovery of phosphorus by Hennig Brand by extraction from urine). 

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