Thinking & Personal Effectiveness · Productivity & Work Systems
A topic within Productivity & Work Systems, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Thinking & Personal Effectiveness.
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Matthew A. Killingsworth & Daniel T. Gilbert
Using experience-sampling from thousands of people, finds minds wander from the task at hand nearly half of waking hours and that this wandering itself predicts lower happiness regardless of what it wanders to.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Sophie Leroy
Shows that switching to a new task before finishing the last one leaves attention partly stuck on the unfinished task, so performance on the new task suffers even when the switch was voluntary.