Report from psychologists at Virginia and Harvard Universities tackles question of why most of us find it so tough to do nothingIt was not so much how tough people found the challenge, but how far they would go to avoid it that left researchers gobsmacked. The task? To sit in a chair and do nothing but think.
So unbearable did some find it that they took up the secure but alarming opportunity to give themselves gentle electric shocks in an attempt to crash the tedium.
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Source: theguardian.com