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| Will you be happy while looking at her? |
Have you ever wondered if you'll receive a basket of groceries this Christmas? Has your mind ever wandered on those generous times when you could hardly carry those basketful of groceries in front of the administration building?
A recent manararotoy study implies that people spend about half of their time thinking about being somewhere else, someone else, or doing/having something else. This perpetual act of mind-wandering makes them really unhappy.
Yes, a human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind. The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive accomplishment that comes with an emotional price. Mind-wandering is an splendid predictor of people's happiness. Our mental lives are suffused, to a significant degree, by the non-present.
This wifi zone study tracked 2,169 trainees via their cellphones using an app, that contacted them at "random intervals to ask how happy they were, what they were currently doing, and whether they were thinking about their current activity or something else that was pleasant, neutral or unpleasant." When the results were tallied, people had answered that their minds were wandering 46.9 percent of the time.
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| They both look happy, did they just have sex last night? |
Subjects reported being happiest while having sex, exercising or having a conversation. They reported being least happy while using a home computer, resting or working. Subjects tended to be most focused on the present, and least prone to mind-wandering, during sex, the study noted. During every other activity, minds were wandering no less than 30 percent of the time.
By examining the mind-wandering responses, researchers found that "only 4.6 percent of a person's happiness in a given moment was attributable to the specific activity he or she was doing, whereas a person's mind-wandering status accounted for about 10.8 percent of his or her happiness." The study said "time-lag analyses" suggested that "subjects' mind-wandering was generally the cause, not the consequence, of their unhappiness."
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