Boredom

InventHelp Inventor Develops Newly Designed Spinner-Style Toy (PTA-202)

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

My design would also provide a means of teaching children about rotational spin dynamics, tension, inertia, and other scientific principles."

Key Points: 
  • My design would also provide a means of teaching children about rotational spin dynamics, tension, inertia, and other scientific principles."
  • The invention provides a new activity toy for children and adults.
  • The original design was submitted to the Portland sales office of InventHelp.
  • 22-PTA-202, InventHelp, 100 Beecham Drive, Suite 110, Pittsburgh, PA 15205-9801, or call (412) 288-1300 ext.

Anger, sadness, boredom, anxiety – emotions that feel bad can be useful

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Thursday, February 8, 2024

These types of emotions are unpleasant to experience and can even feel overwhelming.

Key Points: 
  • These types of emotions are unpleasant to experience and can even feel overwhelming.
  • In fact, in psychology experiments, people will pay money to not feel many negative emotions.
  • But recent research is revealing that emotions can be useful, and even negative emotions can bring benefits.

Sadness can help you recover from a failure

  • Once evoked, sadness is associated with what psychologists call a deactivation state of doing little, without much behavior or physical arousal.
  • The benefit of the stopping and thinking that comes with sadness is that it helps people recover from failure.
  • Sadness can function differently when there’s the possibility that the failure could be avoided if other people help.
  • Expressing sadness, through tears or verbally, has the benefit of potentially recruiting other people to help you achieve your goals.

Anger prepares you to overcome an obstacle

  • The obstacle could be an injustice committed by another person, or it could be a computer that repeatedly crashes while you’re trying to get work done.
  • Once evoked, anger is associated with a “readiness for action,” and your thinking focuses on the obstacle.
  • Expressing anger, facially or verbally, has the benefit of prompting other people to clear the way.

Anxiety helps you prepare for danger

  • Once evoked, anxiety is associated with being prepared to respond to danger, including increased physical arousal and attention to threats and risk.
  • The eye-widening that often comes with fear and anxiety even gives people a wider field of vision and improves threat detection.
  • Anxiety prepares the body for action, which improves performance on a number of tasks that involve motivation and attention.

Boredom can jolt you out of a rut

  • Boredom appears to occur when someone’s current situation is not causing any other emotional response.
  • Psychology researchers think that the benefit of boredom in situations where people are not responding emotionally is that it prompts making a change.
  • Boredom has been related to more risk seeking, a desire for novelty, and creative thinking.

Using the toolkit of emotion

  • But research is finding that a satisfying and productive life includes a mix of positive and negative emotions.
  • Negative emotions, even though they feel bad to experience, can motivate and prepare people for failure, challenges, threats and exploration.


Heather Lench does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Bird Toys Market to Hit US$ 2.16 Billion By 2030: Report by CoherentMI

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024

• North America is expected to hold a dominant position in the bird toys market over the forecast period, due to the region's high pet ownership rates and the popularity of bird companionship.

Key Points: 
  • • North America is expected to hold a dominant position in the bird toys market over the forecast period, due to the region's high pet ownership rates and the popularity of bird companionship.
  • These key players offer a wide range of bird toys to cater to the diverse needs of pet owners.
  • One market opportunity in the bird toys industry is the increasing demand for eco-friendly toys.
  • Another market opportunity in the bird toys industry arises from the growing trend of pet ownership and the humanization of pets.

Bird Toys Market to Hit US$ 2.16 Billion By 2030: Report by CoherentMI

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

• North America is expected to hold a dominant position in the bird toys market over the forecast period, due to the region's high pet ownership rates and the popularity of bird companionship.

Key Points: 
  • • North America is expected to hold a dominant position in the bird toys market over the forecast period, due to the region's high pet ownership rates and the popularity of bird companionship.
  • These key players offer a wide range of bird toys to cater to the diverse needs of pet owners.
  • One market opportunity in the bird toys industry is the increasing demand for eco-friendly toys.
  • Another market opportunity in the bird toys industry arises from the growing trend of pet ownership and the humanization of pets.

New Survey Shows Two Thirds of Developers Are Using AI at Work; Are Less Confident in Job Market

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Tuesday, January 9, 2024

The survey also looked at biggest challenges facing developers, the impact of AI on developers and hiring, most in-demand skills, and more.

Key Points: 
  • The survey also looked at biggest challenges facing developers, the impact of AI on developers and hiring, most in-demand skills, and more.
  • But unease in the job market persists, as 21% of developers say they felt less secure in their job, up from 17% last year.
  • Among those using AI at work, the two most common tools used are ChatGPT (60%) and GitHub’s Copilot (18%).
  • More surprisingly, candidates themselves are more likely to think using AI during a job interview is cheating (33%), compared to one-quarter (23%) of recruiters.

Are you a Lounger, Dreamer, Plodder, or Go-Getter? Achieving your New Year's resolutions depends on your personality

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Friday, January 5, 2024

MONTREAL, Jan. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As another year draws to a close, introspection begins. Like an accountant tallying up the year's debits and credits, many people assess what they've achieved, what they could have done better, and what they just want to forget. This annual post-mortem of achievements and opportunities missed typically results in a resolve to turn the page—lofty goals are set and resolutions for the upcoming year are made. However, well over 90% of us see our willpower tapering off by mid-February. So, what does it take to actually walk the walk and not just talk the talk? Researchers at Queendom.com identified two key traits that are absolutely crucial to success among the 9% of people who actually stick with their New Year resolutions: ambition and drive.

Key Points: 
  • Here's a breakdown of each type:
    What they have going for them:
    > Not setting goals means they don't risk failure or disappointment.
  • > A lack of drive makes it far more difficult to motivate themselves to do anything that requires effort.
  • Tips to help Loungers achieve their New Year's resolutions:
    > Start with small goals, then work your way up.
  • Remember, if you're setting the same resolutions as you did last year, it's a sign that you need to change things up."

'Mum, Dad, I'm bored!' How to teach children to manage their own boredom these holidays

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

We all get bored from time to time and there is nothing particularly wrong with feeling bored.

Key Points: 
  • We all get bored from time to time and there is nothing particularly wrong with feeling bored.
  • In fact, it is a useful emotion because it is helps us reflect and make changes to what we’re doing or our surroundings.

Boredom helps kids learn

  • Boredom is mildly unpleasant, but it’s OK for kids to feel bored.
  • Read more:
    Why are my kids good around other people and then badly behaved with me?

Why do children complain about being bored?

  • When presented with unstructured time, children can have difficulty thinking of and organising things to do.
  • The trick is to help support children generate their own ideas (rather than suggesting ideas to them).

How can parents help kids learn to manage boredom?

  • There’s a lot parents can do to prepare for boredom and support their child learning to manage their own boredom.
  • Talk to your child about what they enjoy doing, their interests and their passions.
  • Develop a menu of activities with your child that they can refer to when they’re bored.
  • Let your child know the plan for the day and the length of time they’re expected to do the activities on their menu.
  • A series of pictures to illustrate the day’s schedule might help.
  • Some children might need help to get started in an activity.
  • Try not to do everything yourself, but rather use questions to help them to problem solve.
  • When your child gets started on an appropriate activity themselves, offer praise and attention.
  • Do this before they have lost interest, but over time, aim to gradually extend the amount of time before commenting.
  • While it is important for children to learn how to manage boredom, children also need to feel valued and know their parents want to spend time with them.
  • Trevor Mazzucchelli is a co-author of Stepping Stones Triple P – Positive Parenting Program and a consultant to Triple P International.
  • Triple P International (TPI) Pty Ltd is a private company licensed by UniQuest Pty Ltd on behalf of UQ, to publish and disseminate Triple P worldwide.

Young people took up smoking during the pandemic – how tobacco has been used for stress relief for more than a century

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Saturday, December 30, 2023

But during some of the most anxiety-ridden months of the COVID pandemic in early 2020, that rate of decline slowed almost to a stop.

Key Points: 
  • But during some of the most anxiety-ridden months of the COVID pandemic in early 2020, that rate of decline slowed almost to a stop.
  • A recent study suggests that the social disruption, boredom and stress brought about by the pandemic may have contributed to a rise in young people taking up smoking.

Smoking as stress relief

  • For some, it was the drug of modernity, as its soothing effects (caused by nicotine) were the ideal antidote to the stress and tension that came with the machine age.
  • The invention of new technology such as the telegraph and railways made life more fast-paced and stressful.
  • At the turn of the 20th century, even medical journal The Lancet suggested that smoking could ease the “restlessness and irritability” that accompanied urban life.
  • In earlier conflicts, including the Boer war (1899-1902) and the Crimean war (1853-56), many military and medical writers had said much the same thing.
  • But the machine-made cigarette made smoking more accessible.

Concerns about young smokers

  • As I’ve found when reading journals from the early 1900s at the British Library, smoking was seen by some doctors and anti-tobacco activists to cause bad manners and antisocial behaviour in idle young boys.
  • Smoking was endangering the health of the next generation and, by extension, the health and longevity of the British empire.
  • Much like the young soldiers who had to endure a mix of intense stress and numbing boredom in the major wars of the modern era, the new, youthful smokers of the pandemic perhaps lit their first ever cigarette to deal with life in lockdown.


Michael Reeve does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

HELPFUL HOLIDAY ADOPTION HINTS AND NEW YEAR GOALS TO ENRICH THE LIVES AND WELL-BEING OF FAMILIES & THEIR BELOVED PETS

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Thursday, December 21, 2023

NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- North Shore Animal League America, the world's largest no-kill animal rescue and adoption organization, aims to ensure those planning to add an animal to their families during the holidays have as much information as possible to help make the experience of bringing a new pet into one's home as stress-free, healthy, and happy as possible.   

Key Points: 
  • Choosing a new, furry family member can be a terrific bonding experience and should be shared with the entire family.
  • We encourage families to choose the newest addition together – visit your local shelter's website and then visit the shelter in person.
  • That can be the holiday surprise and you can then visit your local adoption center to choose the new pet together.
  • #GetYourRescueOn
    For more information on our life-saving work, including adoption, pet health & wellness, the SpayUSA program, volunteering, and donations please visit www.animalleague.org

ResumeBuilder.com Survey Finds 1 in 8 Retirees Plan To Go Back To Work in 2024

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023

SEATTLE, Dec. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ResumeBuilder.com, the premier resource for professional resume templates and career advice, has published a recent survey report that investigates the current and future employment statuses of older Americans. The report also shares insight into how retirees feel about the prospect of returning to work. In total, ResumeBuilder.com surveyed 500 Americans ages 62 to 85.

Key Points: 
  • The report also shares insight into how retirees feel about the prospect of returning to work.
  • "I often meet with retirees who find that they miss the camaraderie of working with others.
  • Based on survey results, 12 percent of retired Americans say they are 'very' or 'somewhat likely' to go back to work next year.
  • However, 2 in 3 retirees who want to return to work say they fear age bias will affect job prospects.