Age Wise

Why You Should Embrace Your Wandering Mind

Daydreaming and distraction are normal, even wonderful

Robert Roy Britt
Published in
6 min readNov 18, 2021

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Image: Pixabay / Gerd Altmann

When healthy young adults were pitted against healthy older people in mindless tasks for a recent research project, a surprising thing happened. The older folks scored lower on cognitive tests, yet each group ultimately performed the same on the boring task at…

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Robert Roy Britt
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Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB