Top Highlights

• In the most basic sense, introspection simply means actively paying attention to one’s own thoughts and feelings.
• In recent years,3 a robust body of new research has demonstrated that when we experience distress, engaging in introspection often does significantly more harm than good.
• Chatter consists of the cyclical negative thoughts and emotions that turn our singular capacity for introspection into a curse rather than a blessing.
• We spend one-third to one-half of our waking life not living in the present.
• Much of our life is the mind.