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Here’s what science has to say about the psychological benefits of ditching structure and focus in lieu of laziness — at least once in a while. 1. Letting your mind wander boosts creativity
For example, when a person has an important meeting later today, their thoughts may be racing around this topic, making the person less responsive to interactions in the present. [58] [12] In some cases, the listener is very keen on making a response. This may cause their attention to focus mainly on their self-talk formulating a message.
Good Life: investigation of the beneficial effects of immersion, absorption, and flow felt by people when optimally engaged with their primary activities, is the study of the Good Life, or the "life of engagement". Flow is experienced when there is a match between a person's strengths and their current task, i.e. when one feels confident of ...
Concentrating on a task, one aspect of flow. Flow in positive psychology, also known colloquially as being in the zone or locked in, is the mental state in which a person performing some activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.
Latest in a year-long series: 366 Daily Inspirational Quotes for 2016. It's March already. Can you believe it? This year, I've been starting each morning with an inspiring, poignant or witty quote ...
Self-understanding stages: Individuals describe their ideal and real selves as having unified identities or characters. Descriptions of the dreaded self focus on failure to live up to one's ideals or role expectations often because of real world problems. This development brings with it increasingly complicated and encompassing moral demands.
“I’m going to make the moon disappear,” he said Oct. 27 on TODAY. Copperfield said he has worked hard to make this a reality. David Copperfield (John Lamparski / Getty Images)
The Art of Happiness (Riverhead, 1998, ISBN 1-57322-111-2) is a book by the 14th Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, a psychiatrist who posed questions to the Dalai Lama. Cutler quotes the Dalai Lama at length, providing context and describing some details of the settings in which the interviews took place, as well as adding his own reflections on issues raised.