CONFUSION VAGUENSS IQ

 People with higher intelligence find it easier to accept confusion and vagueness, a study finds.

Many problems in life do not have a definitive answer — and intelligent people can deal with this more easily.

More intelligent people can make better decisions because they are able to accept ambiguity, researchers have found.

Other common signs of a high IQ include being conscientious, taking risks and being curious.

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Research shows that people spend half their lives not focused on the present. According to CNN, “’A wandering mind is an unhappy mind.’ That's what Harvard researchers Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert of Harvard University wrote after their 2010 study found people spend nearly half of their waking hours thinking about something other than what is going on right in front of them.

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The goal is not about controlling the breath but ‘observing the breath and keeping your attention on the breath and when the mind wanders away to guide it back to the breath,’ she said.

‘When we are still, it is much easier to take this kind of observational stance,’ Jha added. "We don't have to control our movement. We don't have to monitor where we are in space.’

For many people, that stillness associated with mindfulness or meditation can be daunting. Fortunately, you don't have to sit still on the floor with your eyes closed to cultivate this mental exercise. There are more mobile ways to get mindful, including the following.

1) Take a mindful walk... It's not the kind of walk where you let your mind wander. Instead, you focus on the sensations of walking, noticing ‘the toe touching the ground, then the heel, then the lifting of the foot,’ Jha said...

2) Try mindful stretching... Another common physical practice is stretching, according to Diana Winston, director of mindfulness education at the Mindful Awareness Research Center at the University of California, Los Angeles and author of ‘The Little Book of Being.’ ‘The difference between stretching versus making it into a formal mindfulness practice is what you do with your mind,’ she said...

3) Make everyday tasks mindful... You don't have to do a formal exercise to practice mindfulness. ‘It's this quality of attention, and you can bring it into any physical practice,’ Winston said. ‘Rather than being lost in your worries and thinking about everything you have to do and catastrophizing and all the things we normally do, we turn the physical activity into a mindful practice.’

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