Ep 79. Beating Boredom

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Today we’re exploring a universal experience that often gets a bad rap: boredom. Picture this – it’s a lazy afternoon, the clock is ticking slowly, and you find yourself staring at the ceiling, unsure of how to fill the time. Maybe you have so much going on that your brain shorts out for a while. So you avoid everything and boredom from the monotony of your routine sets in. It’s a mental state we’ve all encountered, and while it may seem mundane, boredom shapes our lives in surprising ways. We’ll go through it all. 

Leo Loved Animals

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Leonardo da Vinci loved animals. He would often buy animals in cages just so he could set them free.

Toleration

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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. ~ Helen Keller

Don’t ask. Act!

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Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. ~ Thomas Jefferson

The Silence Of Good People

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The world suffers a lot not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Zheng Yi Sao

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The most successful pirate was a woman named Zheng Yi Sao. Her fleet was composed of 400 junks and between 40,000 to 60,000 pirates in 1805.