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[from 'Human, All Too Human' by Friedrich Nietzsche, in 23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 4. Boredom ]

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 Reference

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.