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Instructions:
Step 1.Reporting of brief meaning of the video.
This video is about people’s thoughts on happiness.Speaker Matt Killingsworth explored happiness and shared his views with the public.

He tells, most people want to be happier, and will seek better jobs, cars, houses because they believe it will make them happier. Happiness seems to be about the moment-to-moment interactions rather than lifetime achievements, so Matt devised an iPhone app that would survey people about their happiness at random points of the day. By tracking people’s instantaneous happiness over the day, and asking what they’re doing, who they’re with at the time, we can understand what causes happinesses.

Perhaps if you think about something pleasant while doing something unpleasant your happiness should increase? To answer this, one of Matt’s survey questions was “are you thinking about something other than what you’re currently doing?”, and whether they were thinking about something pleasant or unpleasant.The data showed that when people’s minds wandered, they were significantly less happy.

So mind-wanderers are less happy. He also saw that people mind-wandered before being unhappy, showing it is causative.

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