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The Invisible Forces Controlling You (w/ Bill Sullivan), You Daydream Surprisingly Often, and Ancient Greek Temples Were Built on Fault Lines on Purpose

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6 • 964 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Learn about how frequent daydreaming may be killing your mood, why ancient Greek temples were purposely built on fault lines; and the invisible forces that make you do the things you do, with author Bill Sullivan.

You Daydream Surprisingly Often, and It's Not Helping by Rachel Bertsche

Ancient Greek Temples Were Purposely Built Over Fault Lines by Reuben Westmaas

Additional resources from Bill Sullivan, author and Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology at Indiana University School of Medicine:

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0:00.0

Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from

0:04.8

Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about how

0:09.3

frequent daydreaming may be killing your mood, why ancient Greek temples were purposely built on fault lines,

0:15.3

and the invisible forces that make you do the things you do, with author Bill Sullivan.

0:20.5

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

0:22.1

When was the last time your mind wandered?

0:25.0

Wait a minute, you totally stopped listening after the let's satisfy some curiosity

0:30.0

didn't you?

0:31.0

Pay attention now.

0:32.0

I'm just kidding. There's no worries. It's

0:34.7

understandable when your mind wanders. According to research, the average person

0:39.0

spends nearly half their waking hours stay dreaming. And that would be just a fun bit of trivia if it wasn't for this next bit.

0:46.0

All that daydreaming actually makes us unhappy.

0:50.0

Now, by daydreaming, I don't just mean those romantic moments sitting at your desk thinking of a loved one or a far off place.

0:57.0

Harvard psychologists count any time your mind wanders as daydreaming.

1:02.0

Whether that's thinking about the past or the future or anything

1:06.0

unrelated to what you're doing in the moment. To learn more about daydreaming's effects,

1:11.8

they send text messages to iPhone users multiple times a day.

1:16.5

These texts nudged them to visit an online survey to report how happy they were feeling

1:21.8

and describe what they were doing at exactly that moment.

1:25.4

They also recorded whether they were thinking about that activity or about something else,

1:29.7

and whether that thought was pleasant or neutral or unpleasant. The researchers were like,

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