Don't really have much to add to these, I just think they are nice so I’m saving them.
Laziness
Laziness" means holding out for activities that you find intrinsically enjoyable
From Ran Prieur’s 065.
I think that's on point. That being said, I think a coercion-free life is quite unrealistic to expect when you haven't developed a steady income stream yet, so it's a bit much to expect that all activity you engage with will be intrinsically enjoyable in our current society. But still, it is worth noticing the lack of fit between modern work and our motivation source, which usually takes the form of impacting something directly in front of us, as opposed to the abstract and complicated work we have now.
The tyranny of the familiar
Cannabis resets the kind of memory that causes boredom.
From Ran Prieur’s 066.
I don't do weed, or any substance really, but the idea of a certain type of memory causing boredom is interesting. I think it has more to do with attention, similar to one of the entry above, but they are very much related. Because when you're bored, or really apathetic, you're in this sense that everything around you is already familiar, which means you don’t need to be paid attention to anything. It's what we could call the tyranny of the familiar.
Boredom and pain
Then I started thinking about attention again, and came up with this: boredom is the absence of anything that earns your attention; pain is the presence of something that demands your attention without earning it. So having to listen to your boring uncle at a family dinner is not actually boredom, but pain.
From Ran Prieur’s 066.
School is painful, like genuinely painful. I wonder if that's why people's legs get restless when they are forced to sit in a place all day long. They have all that energy and curiosity in them, and yet they're forced to listen to a boring teacher talk about boring things.
Ritual engine
A ritual is an engine for turning activity into motivation.
From Ran Prieur’s 061.
I think it undersells the whole dimension of rituals being enchanted and putting you in contact with an experience you wouldn't normally have, but I think that's a very good summary nonetheless.
Litter alienation
So litter happens when people feel alienated from their own locality.
From Ran Prieur’s 079.
I used to not think much about litter, until I realized that it creates a positive feedback loop where poorly maintained places create this sense that it's fine to litter, so it keeps piling up, and it becomes more and more demotivating to start doing something about it. So now I take cleanliness more seriously, especially in my own spaces.
Seashells
Steven Wright line: "I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world."
From Ran Prieur’s 075.
Related: people hoard stuff because they no longer belong to the Universe at large, or once again because they feel alienated from their own locality.