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A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind

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Monday, September 2, 2013

“A human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is an unhappy mind.” 

That’s what psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University wrote this month in the journal Science and amplified in the Harvard Gazette

The psychologists conducted a study in which they tracked 2,500 people and asked them, at random intervals, what they were doing, how happy they were at the moment, and if the activity they were engaged in was pleasant, neutra

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