“We try our best to avoid it, but boredom has its benefits.” I was curious about whether the article was, as advertised, going to be about the advantages of being bored. Of course, it is really about the advantages that accrue from shaking yourself out of your torpor. As someone who almost never suffers boredom, I was interested in learning if I am missing something. Now I’ll never know…and it is without resorting to most of this culture’s ever more frantic, and self-defeating, efforts to help me be less bored. [I got as far as the prescient paragraph acknowledging that some readers might be bored with the article by the time they reached that paragraph.] —SF Chronicle