More people think that people who daze are not smart because they are basically inattentive people who are not able to focus on one thing. However, studies have shown that people who love to daze tend to be smarter, love to daze they are often able to find a different way, to find a way that others have never had. Achieve different results. Today we'll talk about whether people who love to daze are smarter and what are the benefits of dazing?

　　Are people who love to daze smarter?

　　Since childhood, parents and teachers always ask us to pay attention. But it is preferred that you love to daze and get easily distracted. Does it mean that daze is negative. No, psychologists believe that being a dork is a sign of intelligence.

　　Daze and distraction always sound negative, and we always hear the argument that "distraction is bad".

　　Think about it since childhood, parents and teachers have always taught us to concentrate, warned us that distraction is a bad habit; class, obviously swear to concentrate on listening to the lecture, the result of a wandering, miss all the key points.

　　Concentrate on how so difficult? I love to be so dumb, how can I get to the top of life?

　　But is it really useless to be a nerd?

　　Psychologists' research on daze/trance can be traced back to more than a hundred years ago, when William James, the father of American psychology, already saw the important role of daze.

　　What are the benefits of daze love:

　　While a number of studies point to the negativity of dawdling such as leading to negative emotions, maladjustment, etc., psychologists do find benefits associated with dawdling as well. Below, let's look at daze and wandering from a different perspective.

　　1. half of your time today is spent wandering.

　　In psychology, wandering, distraction, and a host of other related concepts are defined as Mind Wandering, which is a self-generated, stimulus-independent mental activity, meaning that it is unrelated to the task at hand. Research shows that we spend nearly half of our waking hours mind wandering. Whether you want to admit it or not, our brains really can't always concentrate.

　　Researcher Jonathan Schooler had subjects spend 45 minutes reading and tested the number of times they wandered off in the process. It was found that the subjects were distracted an average of 6.6 times.

　　That's a lot of distractions when our minds know we need to be attentive and engaged in research, let alone when we're privy to studying for a test or reading a book. Seeing this, are you hurrying to breathe a sigh of relief if you are in the midst of desertion.

　　2. The more distracted you are, the more creative you are!

　　Psychologists have found that distraction may improve our creativity.

　　Baird et al. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, did research on mind wandering and creativity. In the study, subjects were divided into three groups and all subjects had to complete two creativity tests. There was a 12-minute gap between the two tests, during which time the three groups performed different tasks to trigger different levels of wandering.

　　It was found that after the interval, the subjects with the highest increase in creativity on the second test relative to the first creativity test were from the group with the highest level of distraction. In other words, the large number of distractions produced may be responsible for the increase in creativity.

　　Baird explains that during mind wandering, the brain's Executive and Default Networks appear to interact. In other cognitive processes, there is less of this interaction. So when the mind wanders, it is likely that the collision of these two systems facilitates the "incubation" of ideas.

　　Second, the process of mind wandering enhances Unconscious Associative Processing, which facilitates the generation of novel ideas or unconventional solutions.

　　Overall, when we are lost in thought, there is a collision between different neural networks in the brain. Our minds don't follow a set path, but rather wander randomly through vast unknown territories, and this stumbling randomness provides a spark for creativity, and if you're lucky, you might just catch that invigorating "good idea" along one of the boulevards.

　　That's probably why artists always do the most incredible things that have nothing to do with their profession in order to find inspiration. Maybe it's easier to be inspired when you're not concentrating, when you're in a state of mental flux, when your mind is wandering.

　　3. Love to walk away from the people who think more far away

　　Related research shows that the longer the time of distraction, people may look at the problem from the perspective of the longer term.

　　Delay Discounting (Delay Discounting) This concept is widely used in economics, psychology and other fields, representing the value of the reward with the degree of time greatly discounted.

　　If people are given a choice between a smaller but immediate reward and a larger reward that takes time to obtain, those with higher Delay Discounting will favor the former. This means that people are willing to sacrifice long-term goals for short-term benefits.

　　Psychologist Jonathan Smallwood studied the relationship between wandering and delay discount. In this 2021 study, Smallwood triggered subjects to produce varying degrees of "task-irrelevant thinking" (which can be interpreted as a degree of distraction). They were then measured for delay discounts, such as whether they would get $500 right now or $800 a week from now.

　　It turned out that the more task-irrelevant thinking the subjects had the higher the likelihood of choosing the $800 a week later. That is, the longer the subjects were distracted, the longer they were willing to spend waiting for a bigger reward in the future.

　　This study explains that when an individual is distracted, what is going through their mind is isolated from the external environment; for example, if you are completing an experimental task, you may be distracted by wondering whether $500 or $800 is better for you.

　　Such self-generated thoughts represent a release of attention from the "events of the moment", avoiding the distraction of those events and focusing on issues of personal relevance, thinking more patiently and comprehensively about what's good and what's bad, and how to make choices that will benefit the individual in the long run.

　　In addition to this, according to the previously described study on distraction and creativity, the process of distraction may also lead to the discovery of newer, more brilliant ideas beyond the options. Thus, a wanderer may be able to create a long-term plan that is full of novelty and restrained rationality (doesn't that sound great!).

　　4. you're solving problems while you're lost in thought

　　In addition, the content of the distraction reflects the current event that people are most concerned about, which may be unresolved, something that worries TA, or something that they hope to achieve. Many times daydreaming occurs unconsciously, and our brains always seem to fidget and leap ahead of our conscious minds, such as when you don't know when your focus wanders from a math equation to the long-delayed question of whether or not to buy a gym membership.

　　The capacity of the conscious level of a human being is very limited, and processing several kinds of information at the same time can tie up cognitive resources, whereas the capacity of the unconscious is vast, so one of the adaptive functions of wandering is to connect the conscious and the unconscious, driving the things that are nagging to be done to actively spring to an individual's mind, so that people can consciously work through them, and this creates a wandering mind.

　　In this way, wandering can essentially be a way of solving problems.

　　Doesn't reading this article feel like turning your perspective upside down. When you find the original daze is not a bad thing, but more able to help you solve the problem when you are not ready to also come to a daze? In fact, everyone's concentration is only ten or twenty minutes, everyone can not be in something on the whole are concentrated, so when you encountered the problem, do not try to daze once it.