Breakfast Bonus: We're more bored than ever

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People seem to be getting more and more bored as the years go on despite the modern devices that keep our attention. So we're discussing why we think this is and what we can do to be more mindful

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Coast Breakfast Bonus Podcast with Tony Jason Sam Hi.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Thanks for having to listening to our Breakfast Bonus podcast. Today,
we're talking about a study out of a New York
Post saying that people are now more bored than we've
ever been before.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
What does that say about us as a society? Because
there is more on offer than ever before, So what's happening? Absolutely?

Speaker 4 (00:19):
Could you imagine when you're young, having a computer game,
having a calculator, having a TV with unlimited programming, just
sitting in your pocket. I do, Yet we're still bored.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
I do remember as a kid though, go I'm bored,
and my mum would go, don't you give me bored?
You've got a whole farm to explore.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
Yeah, that's it. Do you know we've lost mindfulness? And
there is that comedian online joking about the fact that,
you know, back in his day, we always practice mindfulness
when we're sitting on a bus, would watch a drip
roll down the window. And we no longer do that.
We don't practice mindfulness, and with that we've lost the
ability to entertain ourselves.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
It's an ersatiable need to be entertained constantly. So then
that's why we then think we're bored, but we're not. Actually,
more than.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Ever before, we've got all the stuff on our fingertips.
But now they're saying it's because of that the digital
media is to blame. So since two thousand and nine,
our bottom levels have gone through the roof, which is ridiculous, right,
But because our attention span is so short. Now you
think about it, how for are you watching TV? You're
watching a TV. There's a screen in front of your
showing stuff, and you got your phone in your hand.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Jase, I'll give you a prime example. This literally happened
to me yesterday. Okay, so my nine year old was
on her iPad. I said, that's it, iPad times over.
And she turned to me and she goes, what am
I going to do now? I said, I don't know.
Read a book, do a coloring in, do a puzzle,
ride your bike? Do you want me to keep going on?

(01:38):
These are a million other things in this house you
can do.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
I'm glad you mentioned reading a book because the actually
said this in the study as well. We can no
longer read a book anymore the way we used to,
because they said that Earlier studies have proven that frequent
interruptions would bother us. We get back to the book
and when it's fine. Now though our frequent interruptions are
our own fault. We will pick up the phone, We'll
do scrolling, We'll just wander off the page and just
do something else.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Said.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
You're reading a book and then you have to check
your phone. I know I've done that.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
I take a photo of yourself and post there because
you're reading a book and put that on Instagram.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Why just read that?

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Bove done that too.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
It prohibits your planning as well, though, doesn't it, because
all your time is taken up just with mindless chatter
on social media. So when you actually do get I've
got enough too, and the kids aren't here, I'm often
like I do not to do with myself.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
I'm exactly the same, And you know you've got a
list a mile long. I'm like, why am I paralyzed?
Why can I do anything?

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Yeah? I don't know, I'm exactly, But I.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Also feel like I'm the weak in stuff. I don't
want to do, just do nothing. I want to do something,
you know. And then I think to myself, I'm just
sitting They're doing not much. Even the mindfulness? What else
good luck?

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Could it's because it's boring, it's because so good?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Maybe, but you do get to a point that you're
sick of it and you actually want to live in
the real world. And that's the conundrum.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
And do you know what? Our phones aren't actually that good?

Speaker 4 (02:46):
Are they?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Not? Watching people break their legs in soccer videos? Thanks
Sam for sending me those. That's not fun.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
What about the guy that went down the air?

Speaker 3 (02:54):
No, don't talk about him the multi I've tried to
ignore that.

Speaker 4 (02:58):
Now. Is there not better than you know, doing an
older school task like I don't know, you're a sick man,
roll with you?

Speaker 1 (03:04):
No?

Speaker 4 (03:04):
No, I like to look at these gruesome videos and
send them to people as warnings.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
Well, how come you never put a warning on the
ones you send me? Well, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
I blame Instagram for that, but I think you know,
when you see someone break a league in a specific way,
we'll get caught up in a swing or entangled in
a wood chipper. I always think, well, there was a lesson.
I will never put my foot in a wood chipper.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Until that moment.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
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