2. It includes accountants, church-goers, birdwatchers, insurance folk, data analysts etc.
3. And a whole lot of basic people, from TV addicts to those who live in mid-sized towns.
4. Problem is, such stereotypes define boring in perceived, objective levels of excitement.
5. They fail to notice the nuances and complexities of individual experiences/preferences.
6. Boring is a subjective experience; like what’s boring to one person may interest another.
7. Kenneth Goldsmith studies boring to the bone, and teaches ‘Uncreative Writing’ at Penn.
8. He claims to be the world's most boring writer, producing monumentally boring work.
9. Like retyping the contents of a NY Times edition to transcribing a year’s weather reports.
10. He suggests that his work is better thought about than read; thinkership > readership.
11. He observed that there are two types of boring: ‘boring boring’ and ‘unboring boring’.
12. Boring boring is a forced state; something to endure, like Duchamp’s urinal Fountain.
13. Or Jackson Low’s anti-war poetry reading that goes on and on until the room is empty.
14. Unboring boring is a voluntary state; something to surrender to, like John Cage’s 4′33″.
15. Or Warhol’s films: a static image of the Empire State for 8 hrs, a man sleeping for 6 hrs.
16. Boring makes you think, and nothing's boring if you justify it being there conceptually.
17. The writer Liz Gilbert goes so far as saying everything that is interesting is 90% boring.
18. Or as Cage puts, if something’s boring for 2 mins, try it for 4, 8, 16, 32.. until it won’t.
19. Point is, activities can be interesting not despite their tedious nature, but because of it.
20. Indeed, G.K. Chesterton noted that there are no boring things, only disinterested minds.
21. Thinking about boring this way might mean one won’t be bored in the same way again.
22. G.B. Shaw realised that the harder and more thoroughly one is used up, the more they live.
23. It could well mean that the harder and more thoroughly one is bored up, the more they live.
3. And a whole lot of basic people, from TV addicts to those who live in mid-sized towns.
4. Problem is, such stereotypes define boring in perceived, objective levels of excitement.
5. They fail to notice the nuances and complexities of individual experiences/preferences.
6. Boring is a subjective experience; like what’s boring to one person may interest another.
7. Kenneth Goldsmith studies boring to the bone, and teaches ‘Uncreative Writing’ at Penn.
8. He claims to be the world's most boring writer, producing monumentally boring work.
9. Like retyping the contents of a NY Times edition to transcribing a year’s weather reports.
10. He suggests that his work is better thought about than read; thinkership > readership.
11. He observed that there are two types of boring: ‘boring boring’ and ‘unboring boring’.
12. Boring boring is a forced state; something to endure, like Duchamp’s urinal Fountain.
13. Or Jackson Low’s anti-war poetry reading that goes on and on until the room is empty.
14. Unboring boring is a voluntary state; something to surrender to, like John Cage’s 4′33″.
15. Or Warhol’s films: a static image of the Empire State for 8 hrs, a man sleeping for 6 hrs.
16. Boring makes you think, and nothing's boring if you justify it being there conceptually.
17. The writer Liz Gilbert goes so far as saying everything that is interesting is 90% boring.
18. Or as Cage puts, if something’s boring for 2 mins, try it for 4, 8, 16, 32.. until it won’t.
19. Point is, activities can be interesting not despite their tedious nature, but because of it.
20. Indeed, G.K. Chesterton noted that there are no boring things, only disinterested minds.
21. Thinking about boring this way might mean one won’t be bored in the same way again.
22. G.B. Shaw realised that the harder and more thoroughly one is used up, the more they live.
23. It could well mean that the harder and more thoroughly one is bored up, the more they live.