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

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...