Some corners of social media seem obsessed with optimizing our collective quarantine time, but research suggests that doing nothing -- even letting ourselves be occasionally bored -- is crucial for our cognitive health. WHYYThePulse
Now, with everyone carrying mini-computers in their pockets, people have more ways to fill up every moment of stillness, Dodgen-Magee said. She worries many of us can’t even wait in line a few minutes without pulling out our phones to respond to emails, or level up on a game.
“So it just helps us develop these really beautifully important psychological traits of grit and resilience like nothing else does,” Dodgen-Magee said. On the flip side, when we’re cognitively taxed all the time, we have trouble regulating our emotions. We’re faster to anger, and less able to weather frustration.
But that was only true for participants in the United States. When Bellezza did a similar experiment with Italians, she found the opposite. “The idea is that there is a market for human capital,” she said. “The extent to which we are busy at work, this implies that we’re very in demand. And scarce. If you see a person that’s driving an expensive car, you may think of them as particularly wealthy because what they own is scarce. When you’re bragging about being busy and overworked, the scarce resource is really your brain.
“The result has been we have the most educated cohort in American history, right? However, that hasn’t led to the good jobs that were promised,” he said.. Around the 1980s, when millennials start being born, you begin to see a widening gulf between labor and compensation.
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