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Written By: Agencies | Updated : June 21, 2014 12:54 PM IST
Do you like to work or hate it? Think twice before answering as a recent research study may take you by a surprise as it states that people you generally hate their work or are interested in doing only few things are better than those who really like their work. This is because the haters are found to spend more time in doing few things and this gives them the extra-time and opportunity to sharpen their skills in a specific area. Justin Hepler, the lead author from University of Illinois assumed that our outlook towards work is what motivates our behavior. He suggested that people who are interested in many things end up doing more things, while those who hate performing many things do very few things in a week's time.
"Indeed, some people may be more active than others not because they want to be active per se, but because they identify a large number of specific behaviours in which they want to engage," Hepler added. Although haters and likers did not differ in the types of activities they pursued, haters tended to do fewer activities throughout the week than likers. Haters and likers also did not differ in how much time they spent doing activities throughout the week. They merely differed in the number of activities they did.
As a result, haters spent more time on a given activity. Thus, haters could be characterised as less active because they do fewer things, or they could be characterised as more focused because they spend more time on the small number of things they do. Researchers suggest that their findings may have implications for understanding the development of skills and expertise. For example, likers may adopt a jack-of-all-trades approach to life, investing small amounts of time in a wide variety of activities. In contrast, when haters find an activity they actually like, they may invest a larger amount of time in that task, allowing them to develop a higher skill level compared to likers. The study was published in the journal Social Psychology.
Source: IANS
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