this article from TheAge.com is still interesting:
Source: ThingsAreGood.com
While I don't think that Kalina Christoff is right about people changing their attitudes towards daydreamers,
“People assume that when the mind wanders away it just gets turned off - but we show the opposite, that when it wanders, it turns on,” said Christoff, co-author of the study, and head of a neuroscience laboratory at the University of British Columbia in Western Canada.
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest daydreaming might be a better way to solve problems than intense focusing.
“People who let themselves daydream might not think in the same focused way as when performing a goal-oriented task, but they bring in more mental and brain resources,” said Christoff.
She argued that now people might change their attitudes towards daydreamers.
Source: ThingsAreGood.com
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Fortunately, his boss was used to working with "creative types" so no harm done!
If I had a dollar for every "Earth to Kate" comment I'd received from my father alone during my formative years ... *sighs*