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user-inactivated · 3878 days ago · link · · parent · post: Study: People Find It Hard to Sit Alone in a Room and Think for Just 6 to 15 Minutes, Some Even Chose to Shock Themselves to End This Simple Sounding Test
So I skipped this like I skip 95% of psych studies but I am assuming they used a random assortment of undergrads like usual? Frankly the whole science can fuck right off I would've shocked myself too and then done my thinking at the damn coffee shop. An interesting question for hubski, maybe -- what's the longest time you've ever sat and thought. We've got loads of meditators here. I once spent two hours in total silence while climbing down a mountain, composing a eulogy, and it was perfect, to Neil Armstrong. Wrote the whole thing. Recited it mentally, forgot it. Very good two hours.