Mentally, you may have a tougher time dealing with the monotony of the treadmill.
Village PeopleTo help inmates develop routines and to reduce the monotony of confinement, designers spread Halden's living quarters, work areas and activity centers across the prison grounds.
Only Canary Wharf and a few towers elsewhere—notably a 180m-tall priapic construction in the City known as the “Gherkin”—break the monotony.
But factories like Foxconn have a high rate of turnover. A new generation may be tiring of the monotony. Mr. Yuan, for example, says he is not content to be a factory worker for long.
Just as being bored by years of monotony is a valuable preparation for life, so is finding out that there's a world of luxury and misery beyond that tedium.
