Do you suffer from procrastination?
Or do you like to drift into daydreams?
Then you shouldn't despair - because this could speak for your intelligence.
If your office desk is often drowned in chaos, or if you like to use filler words in presentations to the boss *, there is good news for you: You may have a high level of intelligence and creativity.
Because some bad habits are a sign that you are more creative than others.
Procrastination
Researchers have found in a study that
procrastination
as procrastination, good sides has: Postponement of tasks seems, according to the study results to the
stand creativity of a person in connection
.
Jihae Shin, Assistant Professor of Management and HR, wanted to know exactly and has investigated whether procrastination is really such a bad habit.
The result: procrastinators were rated as significantly more creative.
Of course, you shouldn't overdo it.
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disarray
Many people are familiar with this problem: the
desk in the office can hardly be seen
because documents, bottles, sweets and many other things are already piling up on it.
But this behavior might not be bad for you at all.
A recent study by the University of Groningen has shown that chaos on the desk leads to
goal orientation and motivation
.
The reason: You are looking for order in other areas while your desk continues to disappear
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Filler words
A University of Texas study showed that very
conscientious, high-performing people are
more likely than others to use filler words.
According to the Businessinsider news portal, filler words in presentations should also encourage the audience to listen better.
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Daydreaming
Harvard researchers published a study back in 2010 that found that daydreams can make you unhappy, but in homeopathic doses they encourage
creativity
.
It has been analyzed that twelve minutes of daydreaming can help find solutions to problems.
(sca) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editorial network.
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