MONDAY LINKS ~ Reads on Writing & Better Living: Meaninglessness Is Boring

Photo Credit: Samantha T. via Compfight cc

Quote of the day

Humans beings are addicted to meaning. We all have a great problem: Our lives must have some sort of content. We cannot bear to live our lives without some sort of content that we can see as constituting a meaning. Meaninglessness is boring. And boredom can be described metaphorically as a meaning withdrawal.

~LARS SVENDSEN, author of A Philosophy of Boredom

CREATIVITY

How ‘meaning withdrawal,’ aka boredom, can boost creativity [Boredom:...