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Being bored can spur people’s creativity — partly to escape the horrible, frustrated, and meaningless feeling of boredom — recent studies find. 最近的研究发现，无聊可以激发人们的创造力，从而在一定程度上逃离可怕的，令人沮丧的，无意义的无聊感。 It could even be true at work. 工作中甚至也是如此。 Psychologists at the University of Central Lancashire had participants copy numbers out of the telephone book for 15 minutes, while others went straight into a standard creativity task (Mann & Cadman, 2013). 中央兰开夏大学的心理学家们让参与者连续15分钟抄写电话本中的号码，而其他人直接进入标准的创造力测试。(曼恩 & 卡德曼, 2013) Both groups were asked to come up with as many different uses as they could for a polystyrene cup. The group that were more bored came up with the most uses. 两组参与者都被要求尽可能多地想出塑料杯的不同用法，而更无聊的那一组想出的办法更多。 Dr Sandi Mann, one of the study’s authors said: 此篇研究文章的作者之一，桑迪-曼恩博士说： “Boredom at work has always been seen as something to be eliminated, but perhaps we should be embracing it in order to enhance our creativity. What we want to do next is to see what the practical implications of this finding are. Do people who are bored at work become more creative in other areas of their work — or do they go home and write novels?” | 
