How to beat your boredom
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This article provides six suggestions for beating boredom: reading a book to transport yourself to different realities, learning something new to discover new interests, playing outside for exercise and fun, playing video games to be preoccupied with puzzles and adventures for hours, traveling to explore new places and get out of boredom, and getting creative through crafts or writing for inspiration beyond boredom. The article is titled "How to Beat Your Boredom" and cites its suggestions from a Wikihow article on beating summer boredom as well as images from Google.
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- 1. HOW TO BEAT YOUR BOREDOM By Rebecca Decker
- 2. READ A BOOK Reading a book will get you to leave behind your boredom and soar into various different realities.
- 3. LEARN SOMETHING NEW Learning something new will help you discover new interests
- 4. PLAY OUTSIDE Not only will you get the exercise you need but you’ll have fun doing it
- 5. VIDEO GAMES Video games will keep you preoccupied for hours as you complete complicated puzzles and adventures.
- 6. TRAVEL Traveling will get you out of your boredom while you explore new places
- 7. GET CREATIVE Doing crafts or writing will inspire you to do more than be bored
- 8. WORKS CITED "How To Beat Boredom Over The Summer." Wikihow.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Feb. 2016. Images from Google images