I recently found comfort reading a recent JimDailyAwakening post, gleaning how my way of thinking (focused mindfulness and creative absent-mindedness) may perhaps be a good mix after all!..

"According to psychologist Matthew Killingsworth, forty-seven percent of the time the average mind is wandering. It wanders about a third of the time while we are reading, talking with other people, and taking care of our children. It even wanders ten percent of the time during sex. And all that mind wandering, says Dr. Killingsworth, is not good for our well-being. A mind, he thinks, belongs in one place. He says, "A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. A mind belongs in one place."

I agree--in part. We could all do a better job of managing our distractions, listening respectfully when other people are talking, and living in the present moment.

But there is something to be said for letting our minds drift. Entrepreneurs and creative people almost always appear to be daydreamers. Their minds work like pinballs. The ideas they encounter send their minds in unpredictable and unforeseen directions, creating counterintuitive thought combinations.

There is something to be said for both focused mindfulness and creative absent-mindedness"

http://www.jimsdailyawakenings.com/

It wanders about a third of the time while we are reading, talking with other people, and taking care of our children. It even wanders ten percent of the time during sex. And all that mind wandering, says Dr. Killingsworth, is not good for our well-being. A mind, he thinks, belongs in one place. He says, "A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. A mind belongs in one place."

I agree--in part. We could all do a better job of managing our distractions, listening respectfully when other people are talking, and living in the present moment.

There is something to be said for both focused mindfulness and creative absent-mindedness.

http://www.jimsdailyawakenings.com/