You're in good company, if a boom in boredom studies is anything to go by. The tedium of living under lockdowns, with socialising, sports and travel banned for months on end, has fuelled a wave of research by academics. An international society has also been formed 'to promote and disseminate multidisciplinary research on boredom'. Mariusz Finkielsztein, secretary of the International Society of Boredom Studies, said around 250 researchers around the world were studying how people coped with boredom during lockdowns. He said: 'I organised the first boredom studies conference as a PhD student in Warsaw back in 2015 because no one else was interested in the subject..'However, this year's boredom studies conference, which was held online, was the biggest so far.

Source: Daily Mail July 08, 2021 00:11 UTC