Daydream at Work Is Good: That’s What the Latest Research Say
Science finds that daydreaming carries significant creative and problem-solving benefits at work
Your mind meandering on the job is often thought to be nothing but wasting time. Daydreaming is generally considered detrimental to work.
However, a recent study finds that daydreaming can be a significant asset for problem-solving. Published on the prestigious Academy of Management Journal, the study tested more than 300 professionals across a spectrum of industries using cutting-edge techniques. It found that daydreaming carries significant creative and problem-solving benefits, especially for those who identify with their profession and care for the work they do.
How does daydreaming at work help?
Daydreaming, or a wandering-thought process, is highly creative. It disconnects you from the immediate task at hand. Immediate problem-solving can often be about incremental changes, whereas a daydreaming mode allows you to disconnect yourself from the immediate tasks so that you can develop creative solutions for a problem at hand.
Daydreaming can have significant upsides for one’s tendency to crack difficult challenges in new ways. This, however, presumes that…
