If you want to achieve something, you have to work hard, be disciplined and goal-oriented.
Then you will be happy.
A Harvard professor claims this is wrong.
Spending a lot of time at work, being diligent - that's when you achieve something in life.
Success should then come naturally.
Some people got that from their parents' home on their way into life.
It starts at school, continues through training and studies and then finally into professional life and everyday work.
However, this thinking can affect physical and mental health.
A Harvard professor claims that those who work less are happier and more successful.
Find lazy people for hard work, they will always find the easiest way to complete the tasks.
Bill Gates
Lazy people: becoming successful from the sofa?
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A successful team: Rest and recovery can help.
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No more overtime, enjoy your free time on the sofa and still be successful?
Sounds too good to be true?
Even if it is - it is not that easy to become successful.
Rest and recovery are important to success, but you also have to work for them.
It's just about taking the time pressure off and not having 15-hour days.
Because that makes you sick in the long run.
Possible consequences of a bad work ethic
burnout
depressions
Stress-related physical illnesses
frustration
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Laziness: Intelligent people spend more time doing nothing
Researchers at Florida Guld Coast University found that laziness has something to do with intelligence.
As the study describes, intelligent people should spend more time doing nothing than people with a lower IQ. In a study, the researchers also found that intelligent people take more frequent and longer breaks in everyday life than others.
During these breaks, intelligent people would rather indulge in their own thoughts and discuss complicated issues.
Intelligent people would also be more concerned with self-reflection.
Benefits of rest periods for intelligent people
Energy resources are used sustainably.
Relaxation then helps to perform well at work.
People's health is better.
Harvard professor: Happiness and success are directly related, but not as expected
“Most people assume that hard work makes them successful and success makes them happy.
It's exactly the opposite: those who work less are happier, and those who are happier are automatically more successful," Harvard professor Shawn Achor is quoted as saying by the
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portal .
The connection between happiness and success thus behaves differently than expected.
Likewise, people who are happy should automatically work harder.
Because when you're happy, you don't even realize how hard you're working, it would happen automatically.
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Notice successes and take time to be happy
It can be a hamster wheel in which employees struggle.
Be successful, achieve goals, always new and higher demands.
The intermediate goals and the successes achieved can take a back seat.
It is better to celebrate and recognize successes.
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