Dr. Richard Davidson

using these hard-nosed behavioral measures.

We've also shown that on a hard-nosed behavioral measure of implicit bias that there are significant reductions in implicit bias and those reductions are sustained for at least six months after the formal period of practice ends.

So there's really hard-nosed evidence to suggest that both the brain and behavior change.

So the third pillar, insight, is really about... And I should say, just backing up for a moment, that two of these pillars, connection and purpose, are found in virtually every other framework for understanding well-being.

Two of them are unique.

And the two that are unique are awareness and insight.

And I should just go back to awareness for one moment to just point out one other thing.

There was a very famous study that was published in Science many, many years ago by Killingsworth and Gilbert, two psychologists at Harvard.

And they did a study with around 3,000 people

And they texted them at different points during the day with their consent over the course of several days, and they asked three questions.

The first question they asked people is, what are you doing right now?

And they checked off from a list of activities.

Second question is, where is your mind right now when I queried?

And the third question is, right at this moment, how happy or unhappy are you?

And the finding from this study, the two key findings are that the average adult on these measures reports that they're not paying attention to what they're doing 47% of the time.

And when they're not paying attention to what they're doing, they're significantly less happy.

Even if what they're doing is boring, even if what they're doing is washing the dishes, if their mind are distracted, they're less happy.

And the title of this paper is, A Wandering Mind is an Unhappy Mind.

I would say a happier mind, but not necessarily happy.

Yeah.