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Killingsworth and Gilbert used an app to check in with people via their smartphones at random moments throughout the day. At each of these check-ins, participants were asked a) What are you doing? b) Are you thinking about something other than what you are currently doing? and c) How good do you currently feel?
Cassie Holmes • Happier Hour
Living in flow - the secret of happiness with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi at Happiness & Its Causes 2014
youtube.comIn 2010, Matt Killingsworth and Dan Gilbert investigated what happens when our minds wander or daydream (in the lingo: stimulus-independent thought).5 Using iPhones, they randomly prompted over 2,200 people to answer a few questions as they went about their day. They asked, “What are you doing right now?” “Are you thinking about something other
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Happiness is highly linked to how focused you are on what you're doing.
A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. https://t.co/TJfhQgnb8l
The non-stop comparison game that Maximizers play usually makes them miserable. We could say that maximizers are more driven by mimetic desire than the “Satisificers”—those who are satisfied with finding “the right fit” rather than needing to maximize every outcome.We not only want the things that we can’t have; we don’t want things unless other... See more
Luke Burgis • What People Are Really Doing When They Play Hard to Get
