{"id":973,"date":"2025-05-20T07:49:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=973"},"modified":"2025-05-20T07:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:49:22","slug":"boredom-is-a-form-of-pain-dan-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/boredom-is-a-form-of-pain-dan-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBoredom is a form of pain\u201d &#8211; Dan Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s why I say it\u2019s dangerous to ignore boredom, like any other form of pain. Boredom is, specifically, a signal that you\u2019re reading the wrong thing. If you push through it, then you\u2019re potentially building a flawed understanding; like an overworked joint, you\u2019re going to lose flexibility and have a hell of a time unpicking the things you mislearned. You might be exaggerating the importance of some things and missing others, you might be getting steps out of order, you\u2019re likely to be target-fixated on details rather than understanding how they arise from underlying principles\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/backofmind.substack.com\/p\/boredom-is-a-form-of-pain\">https:\/\/backofmind.substack.com\/p\/boredom-is-a-form-of-pain<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s why I say it\u2019s dangerous to ignore boredom, like any other form of pain. Boredom is, specifically, a signal that you\u2019re reading the wrong thing. If you push through it, then you\u2019re potentially building a flawed understanding; like an overworked joint, you\u2019re going to lose flexibility and have a hell of a time&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":974,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}