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Full Idea
Many people, especially women, do not experience boredom, because they have never learned to work properly.
Gist of Idea
People do not experience boredom if they have never learned to work properly
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 391)
Book Ref
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Human, All Too Human', ed/tr. Faber,Marion [Penguin 1994], p.197
A Reaction
It certainly seems right that boredom is a response to expectations and past habits. Life in a medieval village looks like boredom verging on torture for your busy modern urban sophisticate, but I daresay it was quite absorbing.