Raghav serves as Content Lead at Emerj, covering our major industry areas and conducting research. Raghav has a personal interest in robotics, and previously worked for research firms like Frost & Sullivan and Infiniti Research. Four months ago we launched our AI in Banking podcast where we covered some of the most critical topics related to AI adoption and implementation in banks and financial institutions each month. Our series was based on interviews with AI industry experts, many of whom also shared their valuable insights during our first comprehensive banking research project, the AI Vendor Scorecard and Capability Map. For the fifth month, we reached out to the research advisors who had a hands-on role in helping us with our research with the aim of having them speak directly to banking leaders to help them understand how to prepare for AI disruption in banking.

Every emotion has a purpose--an evolutionary benefit," says Sandi Mann, a psychologist and the author of The Upside of Downtime: Why Boredom Is Good. "I wanted to know why we have this emotion of boredom, which seems like such a negative, pointless emotion." That's how Mann got started in her specialty: boredom. While researching emotions in the workplace in the 1990s, she discovered the second most commonly suppressed emotion after anger was--you guessed it--boredom. "It gets such bad press," she said. "Almost everything seems to be blamed on boredom." As Mann dived into the topic of boredom, she found that it was actually "very interesting." Wijnand van Tilburg from the University of Southampton explained the important evolutionary function of that uneasy, awful feeling this way: "Boredom makes people keen to engage in activities that they find more meaningful than those at hand." "Imagine a world where we didn't get bored," Mann said. "We'd be perpetually excited by ...