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| User | Thread poster: Silvia Barra Any suggestions to fight the boredom? |
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DZiW
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As far as I go in for sports and enjoy skiing and playing snooker, chess and so on I have almost no spare time for boredom)
But when I have a break for my mind I usually randomly open a thick vocabulary and check/ update my knowledge. If there's some nearby then I like to play 'Towns' or chain-words in any language (cat - tap - pit - tip - pot - top...):
Once I was in a waiting room and my mp3 player battery went low; so I began to play 'words' aloud with myself, but as far as there was a family sitting nearby soon three children and their father were playing with me. Hey, I almost missed my train!
Sometime I go to check my garage and some old property there - every time I find something new, interesting or long-forgotten... But if I do feel rather bored I call or pay a visit to my friends)
Cheers
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Paul Dixon 
Brazil
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When I have a long boring project, I always try to slip other jobs in between. When this is not possible, I take a break every two or three hours and look at the news on the Web, or play a quick computer game (Tetris being one of my favourites), or even spend a bit of time with my dear wife.
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Franci Kopac
Slovenia
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| | Break up time into manageable pieces, use software for help | Jan 12, 2010 |
Like everybody says, you should take breaks. The problem is, we tend to take too few breaks during interesting and too much during boring projects.
My solution is a little free program called Workrave (http://www.workrave.org/). It is a bit annoying at first, but you will not believe how much more productive you will be with regular breaks. I have it set to a 30 second break every 15 minutes and 5 minute break every 45 minutes. You will do more in a day and it also should help with any RSI issues you may have.
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claude
Thailand
Local time: 13:21
English to French
| | Two suggestions | Jan 12, 2010 |
Well, a lot of my texts are boring too (a lot of diseases names, actually kind of depressive somedays) so I will suggest two solutions :
First, I noticed music is good as you mentioned and I realized that when I listen to some piano (particularly Bach), my productivity increases as I end up thinking I am Glenn Gould trying to type at his rhythm (a bit similar as when I practised air guitar listening to heavy metal when I was young(er)).
A second solution is buying a plane ticket and go work on the beach. This works fine too.
Claude
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Victor Pereira
Portugal
Local time: 12:21
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Go for kickboxing or alike sport. I started it some 3 years ago and I don't regret it. It's one of the best sports that I know to keep fit and it makes you sweat till your bone. Besides that, it provides you with some tools to overcome problems when you shut down the computer and go out for the real world, where often the power of verbal argumentation is not good enough. What about the bruises? Well, like we say in Portuguese "são ossos do ofício". Typing can also be dangerous: you can always jam a nail between the insert and delete keys.
Just try it and you will see that the word "boredom" turns into "bedroom" because you will return exhausted from the sessions 
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Alla_ K
Ukraine
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Ukrainian to English
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| | big and exciting break it better than number of small and dull ones | Jan 12, 2010 |
For me interruptions every 15 minutes as Franci recommended would distract from translation. Then efforts are necessary to return back to work again. The biggest problem: how to return back to job when it is boring?
Claude’s “plane ticket” suggestion sounds interesting. Do your job and travel! The intellect needs fresh and bright impressions to work properly.
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Tuliparola
Germany
Local time: 13:21
Member (2003)
Dutch to German
| | Music works and a funny voice | Jan 12, 2010 |
@Wordeffect : Thumbs up for your rewarding system. I love to reward me with hearty and spicy brainfood.
Sports? Yeah, good idea. I think a punching ball would help me a lot ...
Wild dances in between in order to let the frustration out, to ban the boredom are great too.
When I was younger I couldn't bear music when studying. But after a couple of boring and simple texts I gave it a try and it works well.
Other tricks/gimmicks:
- reading some phrases aloud with a funny voice (for e.g. like the creative women in "Smack the pony")
- making a grimace or two > demonic grin, great despair,
- sighing very hard
If I take my boredom too serious I'm in serious danger.
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Tuliparola
Germany
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Alla Khandoga wrote:
Claude’s “plane ticket” suggestion sounds interesting. Do your job and travel! The intellect needs fresh and bright impressions to work properly.
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Olga D.
Russian Federation
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| | Workrave rocks!!! | Jun 10, 2010 |
Franci Kopac wrote:
My solution is a little free program called Workrave (http://www.workrave.org/). It is a bit annoying at first, but you will not believe how much more productive you will be with regular breaks. |
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Franci, this application is absolutely amazing, exactly what I needed. Thank you very much for advice!
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Emma Goldsmith
Spain
Local time: 13:21
Member (2010)
Spanish to English
| | Workrave rocks for some people | Jun 10, 2010 |
... but not others. I installed it a few months ago and found it really annoying. It popped up every so often (as programmed) , just when I was in the middle of a sentence, or thinking something through...
It went into my trash bin after a few days.
Still, I'm glad it works for some people
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Tom in London
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:21
Member (2008)
Italian to English
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