Zap your brain into the zone: Fast track to pure focus - life - 06 February 2012. I'm close to tears behind my thin cover of sandbags as 20 screaming, masked men run towards me at full speed, strapped into suicide bomb vests and clutching rifles.
For every one I manage to shoot dead, three new assailants pop up from nowhere. I'm clearly not shooting fast enough, and panic and incompetence are making me continually jam my rifle. My salvation lies in the fact that my attackers are only a video, projected on screens to the front and sides. Home - Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor. Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight. AGES. No problem, I’ll have it done next week. Why Learning About the Brain Can Be a (Positive) Addiction. Turn_the_360_around. NeuroLeadership_in_2010. Neuroscience-of-engagement. New Study Shows Humans Are on Autopilot Nearly Half the Time.
A new study by Daniel Gilbert (who wrote a great book called ' Stumbling on Happiness ') and Matthew Killingsworth, confirms something we've all suspected: most of us are 'mentally checked out' a good portion of the time.
It turns out that just under half the time, 46.9% to be exact, people are doing what's called 'mind wandering'. They are not focused on the outside world or the task at hand, they are looking into their own thoughts. Unfortunately, the study of 2,250 people proposes, most of this activity doesn't make us feel happy. Rock_&_Schwartz_s&b_43_06207.