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How to Fight Boredom with Curiosity

By Francesca Gino

Stray thoughts that turn into big ideas. Hazy-eyed daydreaming, or unconscious problem-solving. Why? How? Why not!

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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.

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Pema Chödrön
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The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life

In his powerful bestseller The Soul's Code, James Hillman brilliantly illuminated the central importance of character to our spiritual and emotional lives.

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James Hillman
2025
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We are often better served by connecting ideas than we are by protecting them.

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Steven Johnson
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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
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'Knock and it shall be opened.’ But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?

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C. S. Lewis
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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C. S. Lewis
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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C. S. Lewis
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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

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C. S. Lewis
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Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

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C. S. Lewis
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