How to deal with immense boredom? Boredom that makes you just want to smash stuff, knock stuff off tables...

>hat exactly were you doing online that was better than any and all real-world activities?
an interesting thread, a youtube vid, nothing spectacular but it keeps you going and leads you to something else

> don't think you've ever put on a pair of running shoes, let alone gone for a run. You can't be bored because your mind is entirely focused on your body.
I never could find running shoes but I did indeed run, in regular sneakers. That you can't be bored is just flatly wrong, I don't know what to tell you. I sweat, heavy breathing, for like an hour, my mind is still fucking bored, looking at houses or whatever I pass, and the houses are boring

Have you tried travelling? This is never boring.

It has been whenever I do it. What do you actually do when you travel, just go sight seeing? Walk around, look at a building, read an engraving by the building, snap a picture? Beyond shit like that, there are the same things to do everywhere else as there are here. It's just more expensive and you have to add in boring travel time

the fact that you think that people posting cartoon frogs on Jow Forums and that like Feminist Gamers Get Pwned videos are infinitely more interesting than anything in the real world shows that you have a severe addiction to the internet.

You might even have severe ADD for real. I'm assuming that you at least spent a few years as a kid without the internet, were you always like "this is boring I'm bored everything is so boring"

Go to sleep, either you have a dream that's better than nothing or you at least killed some hou

>What do you actually do when you travel, just go sight seeing?

What do you do when you look at "an interesting thread" or "a youtube vid"

what exactly is it that's able to capture your bird brain's attention, give us some examples

I tried music and drawing
Music was a colossal waste of time
Drawing only made me miserable

>Music was a colossal waste of time

but pulling your pud while sitting at the computer isn't?

are you just making excuses at this point it like whatever suggestion anons throw at you you're just like "i tried x and it was BORING so i don't want to do it"
just fucking hang yourself if you find everything that isnt meme frogs and youtube clickbait boring

>the fact that you think that people posting cartoon frogs on Jow Forums and that like Feminist Gamers Get Pwned videos are infinitely more interesting than anything in the real world shows that you have a severe addiction to the internet.
well I obviously don't, there are plenty crap frog threads right now, I need something new

> were you always like "this is boring I'm bored everything is so boring"
Kind of, at least on and off

I slept like 8 hours, and kept going back and pushed it to probably around 10. Had little glimpses and fragments of dreams, but nothing good. I usually don't remember any dreams, and when I do they are fucking BORING *smashes things*

>what exactly is it that's able to capture your bird brain's attention, give us some examples
Could be just about anything. A lot of threads are funny sometimes, if its a little fresh and stuff. Beyond that, on youtube, I could watch stuff about history, economics, art, philosophy, science, could watch a tv series, whatever, it doesn't really matter. And I'll go back and do all that shit again when I give it some time, I just need something new right now and I've run out of fucking shit

fyi
is not OP. I am OP

is me though

>well I obviously don't

You obviously do cause you've shot down any and all suggestions about anything related to real world activities or hobbies or pastimes or anything and even went as far as to accuse the entire rest of the world of somehow lying to themselves and that no one actually enjoys what they're doing.

I don't know how you possibly could have functioned as a human being prior to like 2003 when the internet wasn't a household item yet.

You have internet addiction and you're in deep denial about it.

although I guess I should mentioned I have tried drawing multiple times throughout my life, and multiple instruments, and none of them went anywhere because they were actually really boring, making it hard to get anywhere

At least I'm not putting any effort into it, my dick doesn't even get hard anymore
Maybe you have low standards, your mother sure did

It's just stupid shit designed to raise your expectations of life so they can inmediately be destroyed again by reality
I wasted a ton of time and money into drawing, I wish I never did, I wish I just slept all that time away instead

>You obviously do
I'm saying the internet isn't always enough, I have the internet right now and I cant find anything on it, so it is no better than anything off the internet
>even went as far as to accuse the entire rest of the world of somehow lying to themselves and that no one actually enjoys what they're doing.
I believe I said I have considered that it is a possibility. I'm not sure about it though

>I don't know how you possibly could have functioned as a human being prior to like 2003 when the internet wasn't a household item yet.
pretty similarly, I still got bored a lot. And all the shit people would suggest me to do, I would try, and they were boring. So it conflicts with the "internet addiction" idea

>I'm saying the internet isn't always enough, I have the internet right now and I cant find anything on it, so it is no better than anything off the internet

yeah but you've said that 100% of what you've tried off the internet is boring and lame and boring and not interesting and you get bored with it very quickly because it's boring, while with the internet you've said that you at least sometimes find "a cool thread"

so obviously the internet has some part in your problem. It just sounds like you have crippling ADD and you need meds.

I dont think I said that. Before the internet, I would watch tv or something. Play some video games, I still do that sometimes. If you are talking really young, maybe legos or action figures. But those all get boring too, so I'm in the exact same position as when I get the internet later in life.

>Before the internet, I would watch tv or something. Play some video games, I still do that sometimes.

those are just the 90s equivalent of what the internet is today, something to do to shut your brain off.

>If you are talking really young, maybe legos or action figures. But those all get boring too,

exactly, you feel that anything in the real world that isn't attached to a fuckin screen is boring. That's an addiction.

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do something

well, because those things allow you to hop from information to information. It's not that any one thing on there is so particularly interesting, it's just that when one thing gets boring, it is a good medium for then finding the next thing until that gets boring too.

WHAT though

Hit the gym

I generally try to sympathize with people here but you're just a faggot, curing boredom is so easy. Just start putting in more effort in everything you do and pursuing things you find interesting, if thats not enough then start seriously looking around until you find more shit to pursue. Git gud.

anything that is legal, that you can afford, that looks remotely interesting to you.

>but nothing-
bullshit. I think youre feeling unmotivated as a result of doing nothing with yourself over a considerable period of time. do something that is interesting in theory, like going for a bike ride, a cafe to read, or talking to some gurlz.

most guys want a good gf or a wife but don’t actually do anything to accomplish that relationship until theyre older. most guys want fitness but don’t exercise.

done it, lift weight and then lift weight again and then lift weight again, not exactly entertaining. They call them reps, short for repetition, it's almost boring by fucking definition. And same with everything else you can find in a gym, it's all about repetition of the most menial things until you have muscles and shit.

more effort into something that is boring does not make it not boring, it just makes me more tired so more reason to stop, sorry but your advice is ridiculous

sorry but the but nothing stands

Not really interested in getting a gf or wife or talking to people in general

>whats 2 + 2? and don’t give me that 4 shit
>op argued with everyone thread, rude edition

fucking idiot you deserve to feel worse, because youre doing this to yourself and being a dickhead so others suffer with you.

fucking retard kys

sorry boredom does make me more unlikeable, I admit that, but there was no 2+2=4 in this thread from you guys, you guys would rather just give bad advice than admit you don't have any, and then get mad if your bad advice isn't accepted

kill yourself instead of wasting anyone elses time

Jow Forums in a nutshell

shave your neckbeard
take a shower
go outside
find a girl
get a life

So you want to be my girlfriend?

Not OP. Op is not interested in girls

You shouldnt be bored if youre invested in something and treating it like a quest. If that doesnt work then put all your bored energy into finding things you enjoy IN REAL LIFE, the fact that youre looking on Youtube tells me the problem is youre spending all day on the computer.

If I spend all day on the computer it's because things are boring, not the other way around. And justtaking computer put of the equation doesn't fix that

youre straight up a fucking idiot. please do what the smart people are telling you.

Do extreme sports or something. Something exciting.

Which is all shit ive already done

Lol youre hopeless sorry mate

That is kind of what I figured,at least you are honest

do it for longer and become sufferable so you make a few friends

youre pathetic

That's the other thing they all say, and you could keep doing it for 10 years and they'll say just keep doing it longer until eventually they'll just say "well you're just too close minded" after ypuve wasted all your life on them

Dude just play some vidyas or eat some nuggs. Chill

ever tried meditating or any of that spiritual shit? it might help you a lot

Yeah I tried to get myself to believe in stuff, doesnt work like that

I might eat some nugs but I was playing game before and was bored and really don't feel like it now

Have you ignore the entire rest of the thread where OP told everyone that everything in the entire universe except the internet is boring, and then he denied having an internet addiction and insisted on calling everyone and everything boring

That's not true im open to suggestions about what to do, that's why I made the thread but you guys arent really doing a good job and some of you it doesn't even seem like youre trying

so does reading a fuking book m8, you can look shit up in the index

remember that shit? index in books?

>could watch stuff about history, economics, art, philosophy, science

so surely you could stand to read a fuckin book about it

oh no wait
>And there's just no way books can beat the internet

Give it up man, you're literally describing ADD symptoms. Go get the medical help you need and deserve instead of arguing with everyone that life itself is boring and we're wrong for enjoying it.

>hat's not true im open to suggestions about what to do

you definitely are not open to anything

>all the shit people say isn't boring is boring
>people lie to themselves to say they are enjoying something that they aren't actually enjoying, and if they just keep it up long enough, forcing themselves, and telling themselves and others it is fun, then they end up actually liking it, and thats how people actually get hobbies. I have tried this myself and I can never get it to happen

not nearly as fast as on a computer

that was me being open, I said I tried didnt I?

>you guys arent really doing a good job and some of you it doesn't even seem like youre trying

People have suggested to you
-going on errands
-running
-urban exploration
-reading
-going to a bookstore/library
-drawing
-music
-writing
-enjoying the outdoors
-travelling
-sleeping
-going to the gym
-finding a gf
-extreme sports
-playing video games
-meditation

and you either ignored their suggestions, or said those things were boring and they were boring for enjoying those boring things

Youre neither open to suggestions nor trying. Listen to the following words: you are not abnormally bored, you are just a scared faggot who won't put any real effort into life. The only people who have serious chronic issues with boredom are geniuses who blaze through everything, and by nature they are smart and distressed enough that they can and do find ways to pass the time. This is not what you are, youre stupid and lazy and you've been sufficiently stimulated by Youtube for years and you're just now getting tired of it.

The real world is really pretty exciting if you try, you dont have to be a social butterfly just get some sunshine and find something to do. Here are some suggestions: Pick up a sport, go camping, develop an autistic interest in collecting something like bottlecaps and start haggling in flea markets, commit some crimes, go to a strip club, buy a boat and hit up all the whorehouses of the Caribbean, become a truck driver, work construction, ironically/unironically participate in protests, visit a nudist colony, just walk or drive around until you see something interesting.

I have literally done all of those things and they are shit, or at least get old fast in the case of video games and sleeping

nah m8, you're shit. People have no problem enjoying any one of those things.

If we're all idiots with shitty suggestions, then you figure it out. Maybe looking up another youtube video will magically drop happiness and a sense of fulfilment onto your lap.

Meditation. It _is_ boring.

So you train yourself to accept boredom instead of chasing the tail of "fun" all your life.

change things up. do something different

it's as easy as that. you don't need to go into a severe emotional rage to break your own inertia.

It does make sense. It's annoying because it hits a chord; the "it's my own damn fault and the fix is neither quick nor easy" chord.
The thread is filled, as usual, with perfectly sensible advice you got FOR FUCKING FREE YOU GIBMEDAT KANG that would have literally been handed to you by a therapist. It's not going to be easy. Hell, becoming entertaining might not be fun unto itself. But whatever the FUCK you're doing is not just not helping, it's making the problem worse.

Two things I want you to remember:
>Ignoring the truth does not make it any less true (you are boring and the cause of your own problems)
>Significance is cumulative, but not always obvious

>Significance is cumulative, but not always obvious
not sure what this means

...

It means that what makes something significant is usually the sum of all the small parts
So when people are telling you to do a list of things, they're telling you a list of general improvements and if you implemented them over a long-term, you would objectively see improvement.
The problem is that somehow, we've all become quite used to instant gratification and now we expect it even from mental faculties... which is just not how those work.

is this from a jordan peterson book?

I don't see anything about how the government should provide incels with state-funded sex slaves, I mean girlfriends, so no probably not

>JPeetz
Fukken lol, shouldn't that tell you something about self-help.
No, I have no idea if it has an origin source but I plucked it from an acquaintance.
The point for OP is that you're not going to get instant results, so you're going to have to adopt a long-term strategy.

Maybe you need to, just, like, smoke some weed, man, like, really unwind, man. It's, like, totally, like, spiritual. Man.

pottery/clay making is pretty cool

plus, girls like it.

Just seems like such a con. Not even that you are intentionally conning me, maybe you got conned and are just passing it on in a well meaning way. But it's like, I bought snake oil, it didnt do anything, so i go back and complain, and the guy tells me "well you just need to keep buying more. Drink a bottle a week" and I say "until when" and he says "well just keep doing it until it works, and then you'll know it works"

I have done weed, I dont like weed. Everyone already assumes I smoke weed anyways but I do not

>Just seems like such a con. Not even that you are intentionally conning me, maybe you got conned and are just passing it on in a well meaning way

You're the one with a problem, not the rest of the world who you think is out to con you by well-meaning proxy

That wouldnt settle who to listen to. Not always but a lot of the time theres one person saying "here, this is the path", and another saying "no, that will lead to misery, this is the way", and I cant do all of them, and the further I go down that path, the less I can go down another. In those scenarios, somebody at least has to be wrong, if not a con artist.

Found the underage faggot

>one person saying "here, this is the path", and another saying "no, that will lead to misery, this is the way"

no one has said that in this thread

Yeah I said not always. But they are giving me different things, most of which Ive tried, and the answer to that is almost invariably that I havent done it long enough. So how long am I suppose to try before switching to some other thing, cause the more time I can give to one, the less I can give to another

Im 26 though

Your brain is fucked mate, get off the computer despite it being boring, just force yourself to do productive shit.
If you can't do that, seek help.

I dont really care what happens to you at this point but Im still here because I may as well help and its fun. Can you tell us exactly what you have tried? I assume youve been essentially a NEET since high school and only tried going to a handful of things outside your house since then.

Well I did go to college. Ive tried getting into reading a few times, read a few books, terrible. I bought a keyboard piano, was forcing myself to do that for a while hoping it would get simewhat enjoyable, didn't. I bought a bunch of drawing supplies, worked on that for a while. I did some fitness shit, weightlifting, jogging, did lose some weight, but it only gets more and more boring the more you do it. I guess that's a primary problem I run into, people act like if you just keep doing something longer it gets less boring, but no, it always gets duller. Did walks in the woods every day for a while, like an hour a day for at least a few mobths, hate nature, it smells, its ugly, its a mess, and its boring as fuck, hate the feel of the air. Try to learn prpgramming through a few sources, tried codeacademy, youtube tutorials. Also tried unity but didnt get very far at all. Sort of learned German through Domingo, passed all the classes anyways. Still didnt really know it, tried to keep refreshing myself with it but it is such a fucking grind. Chess online. The point isnt really how shit I am at them its just how much none of them really catch when they seem to for others

Do you work? If you don't thats the problem, no one should have to fill free time 24/7, thats just not natural. If you do try to find a new job that either makes you travel or has some kind of irregular schedule and work load that keeps you on your feet (like being a cop).

>Like running isnt fucking doing anything. It's one notch beyond standing. Standing but moving forward at a decent speed
I thought I was the only one lol

OP, if you're still there. What don't you try to find something you like? Like, you can see it from two POVs:

A) You're trying things blindly without thinking on what or why are you doing, thus, missing the point of doing it and obviously making you boring. Which I can understand btw.

B) Make your hobby try to find your hobby. It sounds stupid, but which all the shit people requested and invented, there's a fuckton of options. Just step into something, think on it and if you think it has caught your attention even a bare minimum, go ahead.

Id suggest option A, lower your expectations about how much you have to love these things and just enjoy what you can. I dont have a world of hobbies but I get out and amuse myself by doing lots of silly things alone or with my friends, helps that I go to uni too.

Part time, looking for a second. That list is stuff ive tried since graduating in 2015, so its not like thats all shit I tried yesterday

Well that basically is what I'm trying, I think, and have been trying, just failing at it, abd frustration is pretty bound to build up that way

Work full time, you'll appreciate your free time a lot more. Also, its clear you're following meme time killers like learning German and playing dominoes. Find things that are more for you and your demographic, fucked up guy stuff. Get into guns and military shit, go camping with some kind of twist to it like planning for a guerrila war or pretending to be a caveman, watch sam hyde videos and find some friends to do shit like that with.

Then stick to B. You also have to think that although there's a lot for everyone, sometimes there's not something someone. In case my english is poorly worded, I explain.

No because there's a fuckton of options you have to have something that would "wake" you up. Doesn't mean you have to stop trying.

If youstill want to try to read something, don't jump into the books directly. If you like games, try game reviews/opinions/technical game stuff. If you like shows, read about the shows, scripts, details, easter eggs, etc etc Nothing is a whole, and no because you're tried you went deep balls in. (Not accusing you of not trying it balls deep though)

I am looking for full time as it is

I don't think the man shit will ever be for me. My grandpa did take me to a shooting range a couple years ago, pretty boring

Same with Sam hyde videos

Well some people arent meant to be happy

Ok but then if you just say that you have to expect that those people will find ways of lashing out in anger the more they realize how doomed they are

No i dont, if you were capable of doing that you'd have made a change in your life by now. Youre just a faggot.

But in really passive aggressive ways, maybe?

Who cares

You lack discipline, OP. Here's what discipline + boredom can do, especially of the ennui you feel:
youtube.com/watch?v=CHnGzeN1qLw

>like a quest
"Do you have a quest?"
"Everyone needs a quest."