Boredom dissolves when attention is sustained long enough

Evidence

In Zen they say: If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 348

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is a compact definition of how Odell’s attention practice works — the boredom-topped technique that grounds the whole chapter.
• XREF: Echoes the Deep Listening material — sustained attention transforming one’s relation to an object of attention. — connects to: Technical acceleration delivers abundant free time and banishes boredom — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 55