Well, according to the article, the cure is just the ability to become engaged. The experience need not be novel, just satisfying enough to you for you to be able to tune out distractions or find something of interest going on.
Sometimes, stating the obvious is the smartest thing to do. We've got an epidemic of attention-deficit disorders (whatever they are) and unheard of rates of depression, and the only response we have is to fill out prescriptions. It's about time someone reminded us to pay more attention to crafting engaging activities in engaging environments for engaged minds. It's a sign of the times that we only realized this when some over-specialized researchers started counting the number of times the words "boredom," "depression," and "attention" occurred in the same papers.