Mindwandering, Moshe Bar
Mindwandering, Moshe Bar
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Mindwandering
How Your Constant Mental Drift Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity

Author: Moshe Bar

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 8 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/31/2022

Synopsis

Our brains are noisy; certain regions are always grinding away at involuntary activities like daydreaming, worrying about the future, and self-chatter, taking up to forty-seven percent of our waking time. This is mindwandering—and while it can tug your attention away from the present, cognitive neuroscientist Moshe Bar is here to tell you about the method behind this apparent madness.

Mindwandering is the first popular book to explore this multi-faceted phenomenon of your wandering mind and introduces you to the new, exciting research behind it. Bar combines his decades of research to explain the benefits and the possible cost of mindwandering within the broader context of psychology, neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy, providing you with practical knowledge that can help you:

● Develop your sense of self, better relate to others, and make associations that help you understand the world around you

● Increase your ability to focus by understanding when to wander—and when not to

● Magnify and enrich your experiences by learning about full immersion

● Stimulate your creativity by combing through the past and making predictions about the future

About Moshe Bar

Moshe Bar, PhD, is the former director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital and an internationally renowned cognitive neuroscientist. He has a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. For his outstanding research and academic achievements, he has received many awards and honors, including the prestigious 21st Century Science Initiative Award from the McDonnell Foundation, and the Hebb Award from The International Neural Networks Society. He headed the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University in Israel until recently.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Laura on March 01, 2022

Mindwandering by Moshe Bar What: This non-fiction book is a deep dive on the brain. It goes behind the scenes to describe how our brains work and what’s going on when our minds disappear down rabbit holes. Who: Author Moshe Bar is a cognitive neuroscientist. When: Bar describes the results of research......more

Goodreads review by A.M. on April 27, 2022

I noticed some editing errors: wander instead of wonder, and fanaticizing rather than fantasizing, car breaks instead of brakes. A quick run through ProWritingAid would find those. It is pretty unprofessional to miss easy edits like that. Sometimes a non-fiction book is made more accessible when the......more

Goodreads review by Darcia on February 08, 2022

Mindwandering is an interesting look at the neuroscience and psychology behind our brain’s insistence on constantly wandering away, seemingly of its own accord. Stylistically, the writing is more pop culture than in-depth exploration, with a good mix of personal anecdotes and neuroscience research. I......more

Goodreads review by Mark on August 20, 2022

really interesting ideas but not the greatest author......more

Goodreads review by Chris on December 19, 2022

This is definitely one of the best books I’ve read that came out in 2022. Moshe Bar is a cognitive neuroscientist who researches how our minds wander as well as how focused attention can improve our lives. There’s a ton of research in this book that will help you live a better life and hopefully piq......more

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