Your mind wanders nearly half of your waking hours
Research shows our minds wander for nearly half of our waking hours, often leading to unhappiness by pulling us away from the present moment.
Psychological research reveals that daydreams and spontaneous mind-wandering consume almost half of our waking thoughts daily. A 2010 study by Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert, tracking mental states via a smartphone app, found minds wander about 47 percent of the time. This means for every two hours awake, nearly one hour is spent thinking about something other than the current task.
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