“Laziness” is a term that is often placed on “unproductive,” undesirable behavior, though it’s relatively rare that someone doesn’t want to be active or productive solely because they prefer not to. Rather, when someone avoids tasks or has a hard time getting things done, they may be experiencing symptoms from…
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We can train ourselves to better cope with boring tasks. Researchers from Washington State University recruited 54 participants to play a boring computer game. Every time a participant clicked a highlighted circle that appeared on the screen, a different circle would become highlighted. It took participants around 10 minutes and…