A Shared Psychological-Philosophical Approach Boredom has been considered the punishment of the entire humanity throughout its lengthy history. Authors like Siegfried Wenzel (1967), Reinhard Kuhn (1976), and Peter Toohey (2011) have demonstrated that boredom was part of the daily lives of the ancient and medieval peoples, and Patricia Meyer Spacks (1995) and Lars Svendsen (1999) have explained it is the son of modernity. Whatever, the ancients understood it as a shameful emotion resulting from the lack of dedication to the public affairs; in the Middle Ages, it became a sin inside the walls...