Boredom as heroic

I've been reading David Foster Wallace's 'The Pale King'. I stumbled upon Wallace while searching for a Jonathan Franzen book. While I was reading a review of Franzen, one of the commenters said that Wallace was similar but actually loved his characters. This is true, Wallace oozed narrative compassion.
The whole theme of the book (I'm only halfway through), seems to revolve around boredom.
in the brilliant chapter 19
"Sometimes what is important is dull. Sometimes it's work. Sometimes the important things aren't for your entertainment, X."
or 21
"To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhoods limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress- this will happen, mark me. Childhoods end. The first of many deaths....I wish to inform you that the accounting profession to which you aspire is, in fact, heroic...Exacting? Prosaic? Banausic to the point of drudgery? Sometimes. Often tedious? perhaps. But brave? Worthy? Fitting, sweet? Romantic? Chivalric? Heroic?... Gentlemen- by which I mean, of course, latter adolescents who aspire to manhood- gentlemen, here is a truth: Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is...The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valour. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all- all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify an audience. An Audience... Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality- there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you Do you understand? Here is the truth- actual heroism recieves no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested."

Boredom seems to be the unspoken topic in our churches. Should we avoid it, embrace it? Perhaps both. I still need to do some thinking on boredom, especially for young people.
This article helps

Ben Myers on a theology of boredom