Daniel Engber : How the progress bar keeps you sane

Daniel Engber at Small Thing Big Idea
How the progress bar keeps you sane  (transcript)
Summary
This is a story that I am also curious about. I think that it's fun and interesting to explore something that people might not notice and care.

The progress bar is an indicator on a computer. It shows what happens inside the device and it's said to show how much a task has done also.

The speaker's opinion is that the progress bar makes waiting more exciting. If there is no progress bar, you must be bored in front of your computer. Surprisingly, according to a study, people didn't care how much a task had done. People just wanted to see the progress bar. It made them feel better.
The speaker wants them to excite waiting for something, doesn't he? He tells us that people seek something that makes them less boring,  painful, and frustrating always and it's one way like mitigating the fear of death psychologically.

In my opinion, existing the progress bar gives me time to do other things when I see it, the speaker says that it’s wrong, though.
I also excite the ber showing because I think that just my command will be right. Anyway, anyway,  there is time that I have to wait, my life is boring, and thinking about mitigating the fear of death are nonsense.
Waiting time is time to do other things for me, I don't have time to be bored, and I think that death is inevitable.
I know that there are traffic signals that have an indicator that shows how long time you have to wait to cross. It's to avoid crossing forcibly.
However, it gives me time to memorize one English word and the calendar of Napoleon Hill that shows you fall down your life quickly is turned over by me. I go up my life stairs hard, but not fall. Too much?

P.S. I wrote this to the best!

Words in this story
duration /noun/  full length, period, term, span
enhance /verb/  increase, add to
mitigate /verb/ relieve, soften
ease /verb/ relax, loose,  relieve