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For many of us it’s a luxury just to get some uninterrupted private moments during the day when we can lean back and reflect. Yet those count as some of the most valuable moments…
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In the tumult of our daily distractions and to-do lists, innovation dead-ends; in open times it flourishes.
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Where do our thoughts wander when we’re not thinking of anything in particular? Most often, they are all about me.
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While the mind sometimes wanders to pleasant thoughts or fantasy, it more often seems to gravitate to rumination and worry.
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It’s not the chatter of people around us that is the most powerful distractor, but rather the chatter of our own minds. Utter concentration demands these inner voices be stilled.
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Powerful focus brings a sense of peace, and with it, joy.
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The more our mind wanders, the less we can register what’s going on right now, right here.
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…while the mind wanders, our sensory systems shut down, and conversely, while we focus on the here and now, the neural circuits for mind wandering go dim.
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Since daydreaming competes for neural energy with task-focus and sensory perception, there’s small wonder that as we daydream we make more errors…
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Catching a wandering mind in the act is elusive; more often than not when we are lost in thought we fail to realize that our mind has wandered in the first place.
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