科學(xué)60秒: 專注讓你更快樂
來源：滬江聽寫酷
2011-06-13 08:30
Ah, daydreaming. Is there anything more pleasant than ____1____? Well, yes: not letting your thoughts drift, ____2____. Because according to a study published in the journal Science, people are least happy when their minds wander.
Humans, to a degree unmatched by other animals, are capable of thinking about things outside ____3____ — 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? 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 ____4____ 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.
So try to focus on, and live in, the present. You might discover that ____5____.
【視聽版科學(xué)小組榮譽(yù)出品】
Humans, to a degree unmatched by other animals, are capable of thinking about things outside ____3____ — 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? 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 ____4____ 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.
So try to focus on, and live in, the present. You might discover that ____5____.
【視聽版科學(xué)小組榮譽(yù)出品】
sitting back and letting your thoughts drift
for one
the here and now
waking hours
happiness is just being where it's happening
做白日夢會降低幸福感
啊，做白日夢：閑坐著放松小憩、讓思緒肆意徜徉——世上還有什么會比這更令人愉悅？哦，還真有一個(gè)：別讓你的思緒跑得太遠(yuǎn)。因?yàn)槿藗冊谧呱駜簳r(shí)會最不開心，這可是《科學(xué)》雜志上發(fā)表的一項(xiàng)研究說的哦。
從某種程度上說，動物無法與人類相匹敵。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，或者希望會在明天發(fā)生的事。這是一種流動的智力，使我們能夠制定計(jì)劃、學(xué)習(xí)知識。只是，實(shí)現(xiàn)這些的代價(jià)是什么？
哈佛大學(xué)的心理學(xué)家們利用iPhone應(yīng)用程序來找出答案。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他們正在做什么、正在想什么以及感覺如何。結(jié)果發(fā)現(xiàn)，人們會花掉他們近一半的醒著的時(shí)間想些無關(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)漂到爪哇國了，都比他們手頭上的事能更好地預(yù)測出他們的情緒?？茖W(xué)家們由此得出結(jié)論：心不在焉會令人不開心。
因此，把思緒和注意力放到現(xiàn)實(shí)生活中，“活在當(dāng)下”吧！或許你會發(fā)現(xiàn)幸福就在身邊。
