Got a few minutes to spare? Consider using them for a little self-reflection. Here's why, by DrHollyParker
A recent study found that people believe that they won’t feel as satisfied using free moments for contemplation as they do in reality.
Due to this miscalculation, the people in the study tended to prefer reading the news rather than reflecting. The researchers note that our tendency to misjudge the satisfaction of reflecting could impact our choice to direct our energy outward instead.If I were to ask you whether you’ve ever thought about how much satisfaction you get out of various sorts of things you do, I’m virtually certain you’d say something like “absolutely.
Across a series of studies, the research team examined how people expected to feel if they sat and simply engaged in thought and how this lined up against how people actually wound up feeling. The researchers also explored how people's expectations of how they would feel were connected to their decision to lean toward either reflecting or reading news online. The results revealed a tendency for people to underrate how satisfying and absorbing it would feel to stop and reflect.
Of course, as the researchers correctly stated, there’s more work to be done to advance knowledge on this topic. For instance, it would be helpful to illuminate more about precisely why people tend to make this sort of miscalculation, how much longer such a misjudgment lasts , and what types of thoughts feel more fruitful and fulfilling. Having said that, we can arguably still draw something useful from these findings in the meantime.
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