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Giant Brain Candy: A Mind Away Half the Time. Pinged at random through the day, people’s minds were wandering about 47% of the time — and they felt less happy when they were. Source: Mind-wandering and happiness.
Growing evidenceThe research
  1. Killingsworth, M. A., & Gilbert, D. T. (2010). A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. Science, 330(6006), 932.

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A Mind Away Half the Time

Pinged at random through the day, people’s minds were wandering about 47% of the time — and they felt less happy when they were.

Source: Mind-wandering and happiness · Growing evidence

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