family likes to talk hobbies you couldn't care less his appointment with dr bogart gives him a good excuse to leave he depressed about anything has trouble developed to work very home the answer is no the verdict boredom dr bogart's advice is for hugh to find some all consuming interest in life interest yes is psychiatry boredoms an emotional state out of hand that calls for specialized treatment well maybe only well why make a federal case out of it after all what difference does it make if a man's board one arm going to do at home to use boredom and zack's a price in terms of his relations with loretta for example by nature a writer is an enthusiast of person but no enthusiasm can hold up lon happens so many times all creates conflict and rather sometimes consciously strikes out but mostly she she herself loses interest and enthusiasm it's as if boredom were contagious is already the contagion of boredom is affecting his school disciplinary problems are beginning to develop also problems that tie in closely with can his boredom presence don't help this punishment can grades keep going down what to do about it what not to do it comes easier like than galloway down the block she's more and more and more she drank off why do board people do such things and claims it's the monotony of housework that gets her down she dealt satisfactorily with monogamy when she had a job though back before she was married actually her real trouble isn't monogamy it's that she grew up feeling with being a woman a housewife is an empty meaningless  iran's husband won't hear of her working now the result inner conflict for i am a conflict between the demands of marriage and her personal hunger for a feeling of self worth or boredom or drinking sam haglund claims his trouble is his wife stupidity it bores him to distraction really though his big problem is would all those is competition across the street so again the issues conflict reality versus sam's picture of himself as worthy of success but it's a conflict that sam can't bring himself to acknowledge the end result boredom but it's boredom for which he's found a remedy of sorts boost for his ego and a pattern of behavior the days clear back to his teens sam didn't complete them either but they're generally seem to be some girl around to take the sting out of the where does hugh fit into this conflict boredom sequence how did he develop his present pattern the answer to those questions goes back a lot of years when he was a baby he acted spontaneously then just when he felt like without restriction it's have money and people with blue shirts don't you mean father hated the white shirts prosperity created nothing and yet workers still couldn't meet their bills to use mother the creation part didn't matter to her it was money that was important you could see her side when the time came to need his father's funeral expens loneliness was even worse and you went on though through college then into engineering it was a good life out in the field you worked in the building the way his dad always said he sho when you got the chance for an office job he grabbed it but then loretta began to object to other things she didn't like use friends didn't like you could these fussing with mechanical gadgets if you put up a there are always those headaches she had always seemed calm at bedtime not to use struggled very hard his mother had trained him too well for that the higher you rise and yet his family and his financial problems time and closer and closer to a job it's a conflict situation instead of acknowledging how he feels he hides his anger behind a bland mas like relations with people that loretta forces him to meet socially are dull and boring he's cut off from the field projects he loves and the cause of queen and loretta has ruled his workshop out of bounds his relationships with loretta arbitrary are rated badly night after night at the same two torn by internal conflict the fight scenes himself through the eyes of his mother and the rather instead of looking to his own desires he takes it for granted that his main goal in life should be to meet standards don't even dare admit it so instead of bringing it out in the open i let my attention wander i'll develop what looks like supreme disinterest in what i'm supposed to do and use case the situation has been getting worse for years by now it's dubious that he can deal with it effectively without outside help what might he do about it well he could find at least part of the answer right out in his own back yard watching can cans eager to build a tool shed but sometimes he gets tired of  football offers it change of pace swimming to bike ride in other words there is variety and cans interest and change itself is a remedy for mild degrees of boredom as well as a universal human need if you do enough different things there will be little chance to grow bored with anyone other than there's another one who could teach you ways to deal with boredom because they had so taken up with striving to outdo the competition that he is hardly aware of all the busy working has to ha his drive to win shapes his whole way of living he makes no pretense that it doesn't firing arrivals keen man or just playing poker at home on saturday night to fight boredom then each of us needs to take a cold clear look at the rules he lives by or only of us can we resolve our conflicts we must face our drives with her honesty release our tensions a case in point done fanny has a need to dominate but people in need of you can't always be controlled and on those that too so takes out his frustrations on something that he can shape it well something that can't fight back a man's patterns are already formed the best place to stop boredom is back in childhood before  day so long ago and use father showed him how to use a block to pollinate we help ourselves by helping others even more when we help our children if you realize that fact motionless his boredom could die right here in this backyard with canning but the moment passed use pattern of conflict and the boredom was too rigid too strong for him to break job like this requires a real field man well i came to the best i know ralph you mean you mean you put me in charge of this whole job what  why this is the greatest challenge you've ever been offered sure sure the day is ended at data plans you even deeper into boredom and yet there still is hope for a four out of the day's events them awareness growing and a vague realisation that perhaps the road he's on isn't quite the one he wants to travel though alone he's no longer capable of the size of action still can win if he'll get proper help all it demands of him is the first he bring him self to seek that help does he have the strength and courage to break down the walls of fear the penny man or is it too late so late that he'll live out his years in  frustration another good man fallen prey to the creeping paralysis of boredom tasting for himself the better goal of conflicts on resolve potential unfulfilled it