[Overpaid Slacker]

I'm not sure I agree with your premise... that intelligent people are never bored. It sounds attractive, and all -- like intelligent folks' curiosity will always have them engaged in something, therefore they're never "bored", Q.E.D.

But my initial reaction is that dolts are never bored. They can be fascinated with the simple/mundane/repetitive and it would never occur to them that there may be other things out there, or a higher/better use of their time and (limited) intellect.

A cat can entertain itself for hours with a ball of string, a dog with a bone or tennis ball. Many idiots are absorbed to the point of disappearance in video games or some such.

I think that intellectual folks tend toward ennui and self-reflection about it.

JMHO

JP