This is the slidedeck for the conference presentation on boredom. You can find the handout to accompany this slidedeck here http://bit.ly/boredomhandout.

2. Millions long for
immortality who
don’t know what
to do with
themselves on a
rainy Sunday
afternoon.
Susan Ertz

6. Boredom can
be a lethal
thing on a
small island.
Christopher Moore
Island of the Sequined Love Nun

8. Boredom is a feeling
of unpleasure arising
out of a conflict
between a need for
intense mental activity
and lack of incitement
to it, or inability to be
incited

16. Death: Do you
know, that in a
universe so full of
wonders, they have
managed to
invent boredom?
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

21. 10%

24. I've noticed that my
best ideas always
bubble up when the
outside world fails in
its primary job of
frightening, wounding
or entertaining me.-
Scott Adams

27. Is it boredom
or distraction?

31. Boredom is the
conviction that
you can’t
change…the
shriek of unused
capacities.
Saul Bellow, The Adventures
of Augie March

34. Caution:
low-flying fish

39. Our labour
preserves us
from three
great evils -
weariness,
vice, and
want.
Voltaire, Candide

49. ®

50. Thank you so much for
your kind attention!
{I hope you weren’t bored}