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People spend nearly half their waking hours thinking about what isn't going on around themPeople spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they're doing, and this mind-wandering typically makes them unhappy. So says a study that used an iPhone web app to gather 250,000 data points on subjects' thoughts, feelings, and actions as they went about their lives.The research, by psychologists Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard...