Are Meditators Unmotivated Slackers
The piece is by two business school behavioral scientists, Kathleen Vohs and Andrew Hafenbrack, who conducted research to test, among other things, whether “the mindfulness condition would reduce task motivation.” In other words, because mindfulness practice asks you to bring your attention to the “current moment” and “accept things as they are,” you’ll be less likely to “strive to obtain a more desirable future.” When you look under the hood, you find that the subjects in their initial experiment, about 100 people, were divided into two groups and paid $1....