At the extreme end you have the world as a dream in the mind of god. Everyone is just a complex NPC that god makes up. Using powerful AI to model complete personalities based on a few scraps of interaction information.
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Learning to love boredom is like the super sized challenge of learning to like vegetables as a kid. It's a 10,000 hour thing, like differentiating wine, math, or a musical instrument. The 'loving' doesn't start until you've put in the work.
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Most people plateau. They feel "stuck". That they just can't improve any more at math or piano. Whatever level of difficulty you get stuck at is also where you're stuck at with boredom appreciation.
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Boredom appreciation is the same as life appreciation, being happy to just be alive is something that requires a 'beginner's mind'. The willingness to suspend boredom and actively search for the interestingness.
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The marshmallow test tests the primal addiction children of sugar. I'd wager a guess that the 'good parents' who pass the 'get the kid to eat vegetables' test also raise children who can pass the marshmallow test better.
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