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Mindwandering
- How Your Constant Mental Drift Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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Mindwandering
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Publisher's Summary
Our brains are noisy; certain regions are always grinding away at involuntary activities like daydreaming, worrying about the future, and self-chatter, taking up to forty-seven percent of our waking time. This is mindwandering—and while it can tug your attention away from the present, cognitive neuroscientist Moshe Bar is here to tell you about the method behind this apparent madness.
Mindwandering is the first popular book to explore this multi-faceted phenomenon of your wandering mind and introduces you to the new, exciting research behind it. Bar combines his decades of research to explain the benefits and the possible cost of mindwandering within the broader context of psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy, providing you with practical knowledge that can help you:
- Develop your sense of self, better relate to others, and make associations that help you understand the world around you
- Increase your ability to focus by understanding when to wander—and when not to
- Magnify and enrich your experiences by learning about full immersion
- Stimulate your creativity by combing through the past and making predictions about the future
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- Christine Graham
- 13-06-2024
Excellent Listen!
This book is very eloquently written. Clear, concise and to the point. Written in layman terms. Very impressed with this author 👍
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- John B
- 17-03-2023
An interesting positive take on mind wandering
An interesting positive take on mind wandering and mindfulness. This was read with enthusiasm and energy. Using neuroscience to view Vipassana meditation practiced by the author made this a more interesting read.
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- Anonymous User
- 28-04-2022
Narrator is off putting
nothing against the narrator's voice it's more the tone in which he reads. He reads it's almost like a news broadcast or sports commentator. His inflection at the end of some sentences gives the impression that the current subject/story is ending but then it doesn't. My brain struggled to make the switch from 'news broadcaster' delivering short snippets of information to this is actually a book.
my rating is not fair as I have not listend to the whole book.
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 08-04-2022
Cannot listen to narrator
Listened to amazing interview by Moshe Bar on his book and research. Bought the audiobook however this narrator immediately turned me off, could not focus on the content, found voice and tone annoying and distant to the text. Wish the author narrated this.
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