"I hate getting bored"
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"I hate getting bored" has the clipped severity of a personal rule masquerading as a throwaway complaint. Coming from a lawyer, it reads less like whining and more like a professional reflex: boredom isn’t just unpleasant, it’s dangerous. In law, attention is leverage. The bored attorney misses the stray inconsistency in a deposition, the soft spot in a contract clause, the tonal shift that tells you a witness is improvising. Hall’s sentence hints at a temperament built for vigilance, where stimulation equals control.
The phrasing matters. Not "I hate being bored", which sounds passive and inevitable, but "getting bored" - a process, a slide. He’s naming an early warning sign, the moment when focus starts to decay. That choice suggests he sees boredom as something you can catch and counteract, like a bad habit or a strategic vulnerability. It also implies a preference for environments that keep moving: active cases, live disputes, negotiations with stakes. Boredom, here, is the enemy of momentum.
There’s a quiet cultural subtext too: modern professional identity often depends on staying cognitively "on", and law rewards the performance of intensity. Admitting boredom is almost taboo in a field that sells urgency. So the hatred reads like self-policing, a declaration that he won’t drift, won’t disengage, won’t become the kind of lawyer who treats other people’s crises as paperwork. It’s a compact thesis of ambition: if boredom threatens, he’ll either raise the stakes or leave the room.
The phrasing matters. Not "I hate being bored", which sounds passive and inevitable, but "getting bored" - a process, a slide. He’s naming an early warning sign, the moment when focus starts to decay. That choice suggests he sees boredom as something you can catch and counteract, like a bad habit or a strategic vulnerability. It also implies a preference for environments that keep moving: active cases, live disputes, negotiations with stakes. Boredom, here, is the enemy of momentum.
There’s a quiet cultural subtext too: modern professional identity often depends on staying cognitively "on", and law rewards the performance of intensity. Admitting boredom is almost taboo in a field that sells urgency. So the hatred reads like self-policing, a declaration that he won’t drift, won’t disengage, won’t become the kind of lawyer who treats other people’s crises as paperwork. It’s a compact thesis of ambition: if boredom threatens, he’ll either raise the stakes or leave the room.
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