Are You in Default Mode Operation?

Almost half the time, according to a famous study by Killingsworth and Gilbert, we are in default mode operation. We're not paying attention to what we're doing with our hands, or the world around us, nor particularly the sensations of our body,. That's almost half of our lives. Default mode is associated most commonly with self referential ideations thinking about ourself because they use the same exact regions of the brain. It's fine when you strategically, but when we rely on it habitually or to amounts that are not helping us make decisions, over time this can become problematic.