Put down devices, let your mind wander
🧠 Psych - 183/200
Reader,
According to APA’s research, we consistently underestimate how much we'd enjoy spending time alone with our own thoughts, without anything to distract.
Just being with yourself is fun. You’ve to give it a try.
What is it?
In a series of six experiments with a total of 259 participants, the researchers compared people’s predictions of how much they would enjoy simply sitting and thinking with their actual experience of doing so.
In the first experiment, they asked people to predict how much they would enjoy sitting alone with their thoughts for 20 minutes, without being allowed to do anything distracting such as reading, walking around or looking at a smartphone. Afterward, participants reported how much they had enjoyed it.
The researchers found that people enjoyed spending time with their thoughts significantly more than they had predicted.
Reader, do NOT ignore this! For you, I have a request. It would mean the world if you can share the newsletter with a friend or mate. Let’s grow together!
What do I need to know?
These results are especially important in our modern era of information overload and constant access to distractions, according to study co-author Kou Murayama, PhD, of the University of Tübingen in Germany. “It’s now extremely easy to ‘kill time.’
On the bus on your way to work, you can check your phone rather than immerse yourself in your internal free-floating thinking, because you predict thinking will be boring,” he said. “However, if that prediction is inaccurate, you are missing an opportunity to positively engage yourself without relying on such stimulation.” [1]
References & Studies: -
https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2022/07/thoughts-mind-wander
https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/xge-xge0001255.pdf
Youtube Videos, Instagram Reels, NFTs, Podcast exploring Founder’s Brain, everything at a single place - Psych.Email