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One Love
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| Posted 11/13/2010 9:23 AM (GMT -6) |   | | 12 November 2010 Last updated at 08:08 ET
People spend nearly half of their waking hours not thinking about what they are actually doing, according to a US study conducted via the iPhone. More than 2,200 volunteers downloaded an app which then surveyed them about their thoughts and mood at random times of day and night.
The Science study suggested minds wander, even from demanding tasks, at least 30% of the time.
A UK expert said other studies confirmed people are easily distracted.
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After gathering 250,000 survey results, the Harvard team concluded that this group of people spent 46.9% of their time awake with their minds wandering.
Dr Matthew Killingsworth, one of the researchers, said: "Mind-wandering appears ubiquitous across all activities.
"This study shows that our mental lives are pervaded, to a remarkable degree, by the non-present."
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One Love
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| Posted 11/13/2010 9:26 AM (GMT -6) | | So...What is "nepsis"?
Here's a great article. But I really like what Kallistos Ware says...see pages 114-115.
The "neptic" man is one who has come to himself, who does not day-dream, drifting aimlessly under the influences of passing impulses, but who possesses a sense of direction and purpose.
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Watchfulness means, among other things, to be present where we are--at this specific point in space, at this particular moment in time. All too often we are scattered and dispersed; we are living, not with alertness in the present, but with nostalgia in the past, or with misgiving and wishful thinking about the future.
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The "neptic" man, then, is gathered into the here and the now. He is the one who seizes the kairos, the decisive moment of opportunity. God, so C.S. Lewis remarks in The Screwtape Letters, wants men to attend chiefly to two things: "to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience which [God] has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them."
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One Love
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| Posted 11/13/2010 12:50 PM (GMT -6) | | | Heh. Imagine how hard it is for person with the ADHD brain.
I consider it my "thorn in the flesh."
Yeah...
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BBBCanada
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| Posted 11/13/2010 1:59 PM (GMT -6) | | So that explains why I get into so many bus accidents at work. Heh.
Brandon
It is the purpose that makes strong the vow, but vows to every purpose must not hold.--A friend.
To love without love is slavery--Mother Teresa
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