The Competitive Edge

Why is it that we can be doing something, and our mind starts to think about something else involuntarily? Is this a helpful part of the human experience? A nuisance? The nature of mind-wandering is something that scientist Arnaud Delorme has been investigating for the past 20 years. In this conversation, we explore what he has learned as well as some of the main questions the scientific community is trying to understand around the nature of mind. Arnaud recently released a book on this topic and his research called Why Our Minds Wander. For full show notes: https://blog.scottbritton.me/s/evolutionfm-podcast