News Finding: Five minutes three times a week is manageable.
Paper Finding: Additionally, the more participants rated their conversations as ordinary, the more they underestimated their curiosity, r (48)
News Context: It doesn't have to happen every day, but you should find some sort of structure. Five minutes three times a week is manageable. Four hours daily is not, unless you're making your living as a writer.
Paper Context: Similarly, participants' predictions of how interesting they would find the experience of reading what they had documented (M = 3.48, SD = 1.31) were lower than their actual ratings of interest at Time 2 (M = 4.66, SD = 1.58), t(47) = 4.70, p < .001, d = 0.81. Additionally, the more participants rated their conversations as ordinary, the more they underestimated their curiosity, r (48) Study 2 replicated the primary results from Study 1: Individuals underestimated the value of rediscovering current experiences in the future.