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Welcome, Wikipedians, to The Cure for WikiBoredom. This page was established on June 20, 2006 to list all the tasks that need to be accomplished on Wikipedia. The community portal has something similar, however, would get too large if it were to list all the tasks wanted to get done. That's right, I want you to make this list as giant as possible.
Disinformation released a second DVD with bonus features on 12 August 2014, including deleted scenes, including a segment on the positive aspect of boredom: "If not for boredom, what motivates people to experiment and invent new things?" [18] Another bonus is a version of the film sped up 10% "to combat the potential boredom of viewers".
This article discusses scholarly treatments of boredom in the disciplines of psychology and philosophy, but in the past decade or so there has been the growth of what the sociologist Michael Gardiner has called "boredom studies" in its own right - an "emerging" interdisciplinary field [1] Gardiner and colleague Julian Jason Haladyn have an ...
Boredom proneness is a tendency to experience boredom of all types. This is typically assessed by the Boredom Proneness Scale. [ 16 ] Recent research has found that boredom proneness is clearly and consistently associated with failures of attention. [ 17 ]
The first Sensation Seeking Scale (SSS) was created by Marvin Zuckerman and others in 1964. [1] This was considered Form I and Form II was similar, though slightly revised. Analysis and use of these two forms showed that there was more than one dimension to sensation seeking behavior.
Boreout has been studied in terms of its key dimensions. In their practitioners book, Werder and Rothlin suggest elements: boredom, lack of challenge, and lack of interest. These authors disagree with the common perceptions that a demotivated employee is lazy; instead, they claim that the employee has lost interest in work tasks.
The Richest Man in Babylon is a 1926 book by George S. Clason that dispenses financial advice through a collection of parables set 4,097 years earlier, in ancient Babylon.The book remains in print almost a century after the parables were originally published, and is regarded as a classic of personal financial advice.
The 21st Century Cures Act is a United States law enacted by the 114th United States Congress in December 2016 and then signed into law on December 13, 2016. It authorized $6.3 billion in funding, mostly for the National Institutes of Health. [1]