Mindfulness & the Brain · Unit 1 · Lesson 1
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Your mind wanders — a lot
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Right now, part of your attention is already somewhere other than these words.
A Harvard study pinged thousands of people at random moments and asked what they were thinking. Their minds were wandering about 47% of the time — nearly half of waking life spent somewhere other than the present moment.
Roughly how much of waking life does the average mind spend wandering?