On September 16, 2009
Ironically, Being a Slacker Leads to Burn-Out, Study Says
If you were one of the many chronic procrastinators at university who swore you’d turn over a new leaf when you hit the workforce, psychologists have some bad news for you: studies suggest that the tendency to be a slacker actually bodes pretty badly for your career after graduation, and not in the ways you’d suspect. How was this ominous tidbit gleaned by researchers? The British Psychological Society Research Digest blog reports that a pair of psychologists completed standard tests of procrastination and expectations for success for nearly 300 college students. Then tracked how these same students (now grown up and part of the workforce) were doing in their jobs. The conclusion: Students who found reason to avoid work-related tasks…
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