How Mind-Waving Can Enhance Your Capacity for Integration

One of the things that mind wandering does, i enhances your capacity for insight. By distracting you from how you've framed a situation, it can help you return and break up that fixated frame. There's work by segull and others showing that moderate amounts of distraction actually enhance your cognitive flexibility.

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