A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind Matthew A. Killingsworth* and Daniel T. Gilbert nlike other animals‚ human beings spend a lot of time thinking about what is not going on around them‚ contemplating events that happened in the past‚ might happen in the future‚ or will never happen at all. Indeed‚ “stimulus-independent thought” or “mind wandering” appears to be the brain’s default mode of operation (1–3). Although this ability is a remarkable evolutionary achievement that allows people to learn
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Studying: Then and Now One June day‚ I staggered into a high school classroom to take my final exam in United States History IV. I had made my usual desperate effort to cram the night before‚ with the usual dismal results—I had gotten only to page 75 of a 400-page textbook. My study habits in high school‚ obviously‚ were a mess‚ but in college‚ I’ve made an attempt to reform my note-taking‚ studying‚ and test-taking skills. The first thing I tried to improve in college was note-taking. I took
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Red soils develop in a warm‚ temperate‚ wet climate under deciduous forests and have thin organic and mineral layers overlying a yellowish-brown leached layer resting on red layer made of iron oxide(ferric oxide). Red soils generally form from iron-rich sediments. They are usually poor growing soils‚ low in nutrients and humus and difficult to cultivate. These soils are developed on old crystalline rocks under moderate to heavy rainfall conditions. They are deficient in phosphoric acid‚ organic matter
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Since 1997‚ people have been using social media‚ however‚ it became a trend around 2003 to 2005. Nowadays‚ different forms of social media are incorporated into the millennial generation and their lives are preoccupied with it. In Peggy Orenstein’s “The Way We Live Now: I Tweet‚ Therefore I Am‚” she asserts social media has overtaken people’s lives through personal and social reality. Orenstein speculates social media wastes people’s time‚ causes people to be unable to identify between their personal
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The movie The Spectacular Now directed by James Ponsoldt is an emotional but realistic movie about Sutter Keely who is afraid of growing up so believes he should be ”… in living in the now”. Sutter is a high school senior who is popular‚ loves his job‚ is the life of the party and has no plans for the future. After getting drunk one night he wakes up on a lawn with Amy Finicky hovering over him‚ she is quite‚ not popular‚ never had a boyfriend and unlike Sutter she has dreams. Although the two of
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Freedom Then & Now I always think what freedom is. Does freedom limit to an individual person or a country? Everyone wants freedom in their own way; hence the meaning of freedom also differs for each individual. Even now some people feel that we don’t have freedom and we are not independent. Freedom Then was to fight for our country‚ fight for our rights‚ fight for justice. As the song “Vande Maataram” means “Long Live the Mother Land”‚ All Indians goal was to partition British India into
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you in the Now Already for most humans‚ the only respite they find from their own minds is to occasionally revert to a level of consciousness below thought. Everyone does that every night during sleep. But this also happens to some extent through sex‚ alcohol‚ and other drugs that suppress excessive mind activity. If it weren’t for alcohol‚ tranquilizers‚ antidepressants‚ as well as the illegal drugs‚ which are all consumed in vast quantities‚ the insanity of the human mind would become
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Radio: Then & Now Although it’s basic format has remained the same‚ radio decades ago has changed quite a bit compared to modern radio. The first culmination of “Wireless Communication” was primarily for times of War and the safety of seafaring vessels. Soon after‚ society began to use radio as an outlet for news broadcasting. The modern radio we listen to today still shares the same functionality of war communication and news reporting‚ but now it is valued more as a source of music and other
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is to widen the definition and discussion of beauty‚ and intends to change the beauty market; there has been few media battle. Even-though maturity of the people appreciated and thought it was major concern that needed that attention there were few negative criticisms. * Lucio Guerrero from Chicago-sun times dedicated an article on the campaign saying “Really the only time I want to see a thigh that big is in a bucket with bread crumbs on it…ads should be about the unrealistic‚ the ideal or unattainable
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Daijie Qi Nov 16 1. Steven‚ P. (2010). Mind over mass media. (2nd ed.‚ pp. 199-200). New York: The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/opinion/11Pinker.html The article “Mass over Mass Media”‚ written by Steven Pinker for the New York Times in 2010‚ shows that the new technology are “the only things that will keep us smart” instead of making us stupid (p 200). Even though many media critics argue that Power Point‚ Google‚ Twitter and other technologies are
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