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Wandering mind not a happy mind

By Steve Bradt, Harvard Staff Writer / November 11, 2010

People spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing, and this mind wandering typically makes them unhappy, according to research by Harvard psychologists Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert.

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