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    Mindwandering: How Your Constant Mental Drift Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity
    Mindwandering: How Your Constant Mental Drift Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity
    Mindwandering: How Your Constant Mental Drift Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity
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    Mindwandering: How Your Constant Mental Drift Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity

    Written by Moshe Bar

    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

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    About this audiobook

    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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 31, 2022
    ISBN9798765011805
    Mindwandering: How Your Constant Mental Drift Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity
    Author

    Moshe Bar

    Moshe Bar, PhD is the former Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital and an internationally renowned cognitive neuroscientist. He has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. For his outstanding research and academic achievements, he has received many awards and honors, including the prestigious 21st Century Science Initiative Award from the McDonnell Foundation, and the Hebb Award from The International Neural Networks Society. He headed the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University in Israel until recently.

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      Many books promise to make a difference in your life, this one does it seamlessly! Fantastic read, highly recommended!