Boredom is a far more complex mental state than we usually assume. Let’s try to give it some shape and understand it from a constructivist perspective.

In 2001, the U.S. Surgeon General identified racial trauma as the attributing factor to ethnic and racial disparities. Racial trauma is often accompanied by other elements of systemic racism such as socio-economic equality that further perpetuates the racial trauma.

There is no self-creation outside of relationships with others because others are critical mirrors of our creative psychological endeavors. Others show us the constructs we use but might not be conscious of, and they give us feedback that validates or invalidates them – other will, therefore, propel us toward change or validate us as we are now.

Irony gives you more space. For one, it is more forgiving. An ironist knows that her view of the world is not an accurate representation of the world, but merely her construction.

The great skeptic, Sextus Empiricus once wrote: “Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.” The cure is here, will you take it?