http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/mind-wandering-and-why-it-matters/ Wed, 22 May 2013 14:50:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/mind-wandering-and-why-it-matters/#comment-58222 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 17:54:19 +0000 http://thesituationist.wordpress.com/?p=18793#comment-58222 [...] Best Predictor of Unhappiness (is) Mind Wandering – via The Situationist – People spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing, and this mind-wandering typically makes them unhappy. So says a study that used an iPhone Web app to gather 250,000 data points on subjects’ thoughts, feelings, and actions as they went about their lives.“Mind-wandering is an excellent predictor of people’s happiness,” Killingsworth says. “In fact, how often our minds leave the present and where they tend to go is a better predictor of our happiness than the activities in which we are engaged.” [...]

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