One ordeal parents endure is when their adolescents, surrounded by every imaginable toy, game, or video accessory, say, “I’m bored”; In my childhood, my parents would be quick to assign me a job, usually an unpleasant one, to alleviate my ennui. If my adolescents had their way, every afternoon would be prefer a trip to an amusement park with a whirlwind of activities to keep them entertained. I go to fantastic lengths to explain that being bored is part of life plus that as adults, they will face boredom quite often. I use activities that exemplify boredom prefer “enjoying grass grow” or “enjoying paint dry” plus I suggest them to take advantage of those times when there is “nothing to do”. One example I use is Nils Wallerius (1726 – 1704), a Swedish physicist, philosopher, plus theologian. His tolerance for boredom was amazing as he is known for being one of the first scientists to learn evaporation using modern scientific methods. His job was literally to do the equivalent of enjoying paint dry. His experiments included observing the weight loss of an egg over an entire year plus documenting the time for a cup of wine to evaporate. His huge discovery was proving that evaporation occurs in sealed environments. Wallerious may have liked boring activities but his work on evaporation led to others discovering a/c, the AC in Heating and Air Conditioning systems. Instead of wine evaporating in an open glass, refrigerants sealed in the Heating and Air Conditioning loop do their magic when they evaporate plus draw energy from their surroundings, which is the basis for AC. Now, when my adolescents complain they are bored, I tell them to go outside, observe the condenser unit plus try to make a fantastic observation as Wallerius did while I was in his times of boredom.