This title immortalized in a song Chava Flores sleep of thousands of our compatriots to win the lottery, pay the debt and pursue the good life without having to work more than ever. That mental sway, the Anglo-Saxons known as "mind wandering," is which one is floating mentally nirvana, reviewing the past or fantasizing in the future.
would think that investigating the mental state is very difficult, because if it is actually very difficult, because how can analyze any situation related to mental wandering?. Well, Matthew A. Killingsworth and Danel T Gilbert, Harvard University, just published in November This year in Science magazine in an article investigating the emotional impact has to be wandering mentally.
How did?
These researchers came up with the way of gathering data using the benefits of the new phones known as smart phones, including obviously the Apple iPhone. What they did was they developed an application for the iPhone that contact participants at different times semi-randomly selected (only those contacted during the typical hours of being awake), and asked them their state of happiness from 0 to 100 ("how are you feeling right now?), its state of activity ("what are you doing right now?), and the state of mental wandering (" are you thinking about Something Other Than What You are currently doing?), which could be answered with a "no", "if something pleasant, "" yes, something neutral "or" if something unpleasant. "
For using this method were able to involve 5,000 volunteers in 83 countries, aged between 18 and 88 years, supplying about a quarter of a million answers. The results are super interesting. They found that mental wandering occurred in a brutal 46.9% of the samples!, And in at least 30% in any activity, except when the volunteers were having sex, which speaks of the poor level of engagement in any activity, at least this!. Well, the experiment was focused on the emotional state, and this analysis showed that the activities in which people were most happy were obviously first having sex with a level of happiness over 90%, followed in a distant 78% for exercise, and then in descending order by playing, listening to music, take walks, eat, then pray, preparing meals, shopping, babysitting, relax, read and watch television. So here are pleasurable activities. The midpoint is between television viewing and to the house, and there begin the unpleasant, like listening to the news (I think they saw the news over here!), grooming, transported, be on the computer (reading this blog ...), and finally work ( how strange, no?). Now in addition to measuring the emotional impact, they also measured the frequency of such activities, being the most frequent working and talking, while less frequent were the pray, make love and listen to the news.
Pacatele!
The analysis of these authors conclude that the human mind seems to be distracted for nearly half the time. Besides that, after being found wandering mind, usually comes an episode of little happiness, so they conclude that the state produces unhappiness. Finish off by saying that apparently the ability to think about what is going on is a cognitive achievement that has a high emotional cost. Maybe that's why we get the absolute depression every time Do not guess the winning lottery numbers or Melate. Not only is depression that does not get rid of debts or to work, but that comes post-depression mental wanderings!
Anyway, tons that Mexicans are we the only ones who ramble mentally? I think not.
What you throw when you dream, Mexican?
To get rich in lotteries with a million?
better jobs, and get up early,
with green dreams only lose the truck ...
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