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Daydreaming Diminishes Happiness

做白日夢(mèng)會(huì)降低幸福感

Ah, daydreaming. Is there anything more pleasant than sitting back and letting your thoughts drift? Well, yes: not letting your thoughts drift, for one. Because according to a study published in the journal Science, people are least happy when their minds wander.

啊，做白日夢(mèng)：閑坐著放松小憩、讓思緒肆意徜徉——世上還有什么會(huì)比這更令人愉悅？哦，還真有一個(gè)：別讓你的思緒跑得太遠(yuǎn)。因?yàn)槿藗冊(cè)谧呱駜簳r(shí)會(huì)最不開(kāi)心，這可是《科學(xué)》雜志上發(fā)表的一項(xiàng)研究說(shuō)的哦。

Humans, to a degree unmatched by other animals, are capable of thinking about things outside the here and now—something that happened yesterday, or something they hope will happen tomorrow. It’s that sort of itinerant intellect that allows us to plan and to learn. But at what cost?

從某種程度上說(shuō)，動(dòng)物無(wú)法與人類相匹敵。人類能夠思考非此時(shí)此刻正在發(fā)生的事情，比如昨天發(fā)生的某件事，或者希望會(huì)在明天發(fā)生的事。這是一種流動(dòng)的思維，使我們能夠制定計(jì)劃、學(xué)習(xí)知識(shí)。只是，實(shí)現(xiàn)這些的代價(jià)是什么？

Psychologists at Harvard used an iPhone app to find out. At random times throughout the day, the program asked some 2,200 participants what they were doing, what they were thinking about and how they felt. Turns out that people spend nearly half their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing. And that whether and where their thoughts tend to stray is a better predictor of their feelings than what they’re actually up to. The scientists conclude that a wandering mind is an unhappy mind.

哈佛大學(xué)的心理學(xué)家們利用iPhone應(yīng)用程序來(lái)找出答案。這個(gè)程序在一整天的任意時(shí)間里向2千2百名參與者詢問(wèn)他們正在做什么、正在想什么以及感覺(jué)如何。結(jié)果發(fā)現(xiàn)，人們會(huì)花掉他們近一半的醒著的時(shí)間想些無(wú)關(guān)緊要的事情，而不是他們正在做的事情。不管他們是否走神兒，或者思緒已經(jīng)漂到爪哇國(guó)了，都比他們手頭上的事能更好地預(yù)測(cè)出他們的情緒?？茖W(xué)家們由此得出結(jié)論：心不在焉會(huì)令人不開(kāi)心。

So try to focus on, and live in, the present. You might discover that happiness is just being where it’s happening.

因此，把思緒和注意力放到現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中，“活在當(dāng)下”吧！或許你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)幸福就在身邊。

—Karen Hopkin

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