Five types of boredom

Psychologists now know there are at least five types of boredom.

• Calibrating boredom: You have wandering thoughts and a feeling of not knowing what to do.
• Reactive boredom: You feel aggressive towards your detainer - a teacher or the workplace - and dwell on the things you would rather be doing.
• Searching boredom: You feel restless and search for a way out.
• Indifferent boredom: You feel relaxed and separate from the world around you.
• Apathetic boredom: You feel neither good nor bad, but helpless to avoid the feeling.