Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind
By John Tierney
New York Times

In the past, daydreaming was often considered a failure of mental discipline, or worse. Freud labeled it infantile and neurotic. Psychology textbooks warned it could lead topsychosis. Neuroscientists complained that the rogue bursts of activity on brain scans kept interfering with their studies of more important mental functions.

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