The Wandering Mind: What the Brain Does When You're Not Looking,Used

The Wandering Mind: What the Brain Does When You're Not Looking,Used

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If weve done our job welland, lets be honest, if we're luckyyoull read to the end of this description. Most likely, however, you wont. Somewhere in the middle of the next paragraph, your mind will wander off. Minds wander. Thats just how it is.That may be bad news for me, but is it bad news for people in general? Does the fact that as much as fifty percent of our waking hours find us failing to focus on the task at hand represent a problem? Michael Corballis doesnt think so, and with The Wandering Mind, he shows us why, rehabilitating woolgathering and revealing its incredibly useful effects. Drawing on the latest research from cognitive science and evolutionary biology, Corballis shows us how mindwandering not only frees us from momenttomoment drudgery, but also from the limitations of our immediate selves. Mindwandering strengthens our imagination, fueling the flights of invention, storytelling, and empathy that underlie our shared humanity; furthermore, he explains, our tendency to wander back and forth through the timeline of our lives is fundamental to our very sense of ourselves as coherent, continuing personalities.Full of unusual examples and surprising discoveries, The Wandering Mind mounts a vigorous defense of inattentioneven as it never fails to hold the readers.

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