Are you advertising classes in how to be a better worker, now? Good LORD.
As they say, if you like school, you'll love work.
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Ref.:Why Some People Can't Handle Success
By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Staff Writer
28 November 2007
How people view their abilities in the workplace or classroom impacts how they respond to success and failure, new research reveals. Individuals who think their abilities are set for life (as in "a leopard can't change its spots") experience high anxiety over unexpected accomplishments compared with those who view their capabilities as flexible (think "turning over a new leaf").
"People are driven to feel that they can predict and control their outcomes," said co-researcher Jason Plaks, a social psychologist at the University of Toronto. "So when their performance turns out to violate their predictions, this can be unnerving "even if the outcome is, objectively speaking, good news."
This phenomenon is intuitive among social psychologists but had never been put to a rigorous test..
MIND BENDING
Whether a person tends to lean toward the flexible or rigid view is a learned behavior, the researchers figure. That means it can be unlearned or changed, Plaks said.
"Some of my colleagues have isolated socialization patterns and feedback patterns that parents and teachers can give to children that would inculcate you as the fixed view or the malleable view," Plaks said.
If teachers or parents teach children that ability and intelligence are set at birth, this could lead to a grown-up who thinks he or she can't make any headway with hard work or other self-directed strategies. That could be detrimental to a person's professional life.
In the workplace, flexible frames of mind can foster creativity, in that employees will be more likely to try new things and think outside of perceived personal limitations. As the researchers suggest in the October issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, managers and individuals themselves can help to change perspectives in their favor.
"Managers can create a workplace environment, a workplace culture, in which a malleable view of one's abilities is encouraged," Plaks said. "Rather than labeling the workers and putting them into their respective boxes, and kind of implying that that's what you do and that's the limit of your abilities, managers can create an atmosphere in which people are encouraged to try new things without necessarily fear of failure."
In reply to Sandrine:
Charming ! ...I assume that some people can't handle it ... if that were the case I believe that is not as if anyone is 'forced' to buy anything in any case , ... ' Anger Management' comes to my mind with all my respect !
Everyone has different perspective on what constitute as success and failure.
In reply to KaWai:
Indeed, indeed ... Vive la Différence!
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' As they say, if you like school, you'll love work. '
I was intrigued by this quote ... simply because I PERSONALLY find it to be very SIMPLISTIC , old fashion and rather out of touch with our increasingly complicated modern world .... My view is that is you love school you don't necessarily love work ... simply because you haven't found your passion ... so let's shed some light about such ' wise ' views ... the interesting thing is that many teachers actually hate their work ... but they did love school ... ' smile you are in candid camera ! '
http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We've got it down to four words: "Do what you love." But it's not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated.
The very idea is foreign to what most of us learn as kids. When I was a kid, it seemed as if work and fun were opposites by definition. Life had two states: some of the time adults were making you do things, and that was called work; the rest of the time you could do what you wanted, and that was called playing. Occasionally the things adults made you do were fun, just as, occasionally, playing wasn't-for example, if you fell and hurt yourself. But except for these few anomalous cases, work was pretty much defined as not-fun.
And it did not seem to be an accident. School, it was implied, was tedious because it was preparation for grownup work.
The world then was divided into two groups, grownups and kids. Grownups, like some kind of cursed race, had to work. Kids didn't, but they did have to go to school, which was a dilute version of work meant to prepare us for the real thing. Much as we disliked school, the grownups all agreed that grownup work was worse, and that we had it easy.
Teachers in particular all seemed to believe implicitly that work was not fun. Which is not surprising: work wasn't fun for most of them. Why did we have to memorize state capitals instead of playing dodgeball? For the same reason they had to watch over a bunch of kids instead of lying on a beach. You couldn't just do what you wanted.
I'm not saying we should let little kids do whatever they want. They may have to be made to work on certain things. But if we make kids work on dull stuff, it might be wise to tell them that tediousness is not the defining quality of work, and indeed that the reason they have to work on dull stuff now is so they can work on more interesting stuff later. [1]
Once, when I was about 9 or 10, my father told me I could be whatever I wanted when I grew up, so long as I enjoyed it. I remember that precisely because it seemed so anomalous. It was like being told to use dry water. Whatever I thought he meant, I didn't think he meant work could literally be fun-fun like playing. It took me years to grasp that.
In reply to Galileo's Universe:
Try to love what you do, because we are not always so lucky to do what we love.
In reply to KaWai:
what about this side of the coin ? ... with a very different and sound logic :
" Try to do what you love, because we are not always so lucky to love what we do. "
In reply to Galileo's Universe:
In the end, I think they are both good attitudes.
www.simpsoncrazy.com/ gallery/misc.php
This is True...Humour!
WHEN SALARIES AND BENEFITS JUST AREN'T ENOUGH:
The Kanawha County (W.Va.) School Board has voted to give teachers a bonus if they'll simply show up for work. Teacher absence has grown so much the district pays $4.9 million per year for substitute teachers. "Don't get me wrong, our substitutes do a good job," Board president Jim Crawford said. "But this gives people an opportunity to come to school on a regular basis and be rewarded for it." Teachers would get a maximum of a $1,050 bonus if they used none of their 15 allotted sick days each year. The school system treasurer said that if more than half of the eligible employees qualified for the bonus, the scheme would cost more than it saves. (Charleston Daily Mail) ...Worse, think of the precedent: now the kids will want diplomas just for showing up.