3. Boredom enhances our life to be meaningful

The distressing feeling we get when we're bored acts like a mental alarm bell to tell us an activity isn't particularly pleasant, stimulating, or interesting . And therefore helps us to get out of the situation as quickly as possible.

In other words, boredom can make us reevaluate what we're doing, and motivate us to shift our goals to another activity that better meets our expectations or desires.

This is known as autobiographical planning . Essentially, when we're bored our mind-wandering becomes largely future-focused and we think a lot more about what we want from our life.