November 2010
14 posts
45% of our waking lives the mind is somewhere other than the present. →
miller-mccune.com
Is your mind wandering right now? Will it begin doing so before you get to the end of this article? Newly published research by two Harvard University psychologists suggests the odds are close to 50-50.
Using data collected from a specially designed iPhone app, the researchers — stay with me now — report we spend nearly 47 percent of our waking hours thinking about something other than what’s happening in front of us. Moreover, they write in the journal Science, this lack of focus tends to make us less happy….
Read more at www.miller-mccune.com
“Soon enough, planes, trains, subways, and, yes, showers will offer the option of staying connected. Knowing that we cannot rely on spaces that force us to unplug to survive much longer, we must be proactive in creating these spaces for ourselves. And when we have a precious opportunity to NOT be connected, we should develop the capacity to use it and protect it.
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—Scott Belsky, What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking and Sacred Space, the99percent.com.
“It’s amazing how the the human mind does not process the the fact I used the the word “the” twice each time in this sentence.”
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How hard is it to proofread? This hard.
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