Boredom hurts more than pain. Literally. ⚡

In a 2014 study in Science, Timothy Wilson's team left people alone in a bare room for 6 to 15 minutes with nothing but their thoughts and a button that gave a mild electric shock 🔌. About 67% of men and 25% of women shocked themselves at least once, and one guy did it 190 times 🤯. People would rather feel pain than be bored. So the boring lecturer isn't just annoying, he's apparently worse than electrocution 😂

Bigger picture 🌍: that might be why infinite scroll works so well. It's not that feeds are great, it's that empty minutes feel unbearable, and phones killed every empty minute we had 📱🕳️