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Slacker or Worker Personality Test
« on: 2004-08-16 14:02:59 » |
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Only one question needs to be asked when it comes to finding out if you are a wannabe slacker or wannabe worker.
If you could get a shot that would make you want to work like hell, take satisfaction from the work, and do your work better, would you get the shot?
or
Not get the shot, and remain "leisurely"
I would of course get the shot, and keep a good supply of the stuff as well! But I'm sure not everyone - especially those with socialist leaning values, would be so hot to become hard core workaholics.
from the BBC at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3557310.stm
"Scientists in the United States have found a way of turning lazy
monkeys into workaholics using gene therapy.
Usually monkeys work hard only when they know a reward is coming, but
the animals given this treatment did their best all the time.
Monkeys are rather like people in their approach to work - at least,
those who live in a laboratory and learn to press levers for rewards
of food and water.
They concentrate on their task only when the moment of delivery
approaches.
Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health near Washington
DC, led by Dr Barry Richmond, have now developed a genetic treatment
which changes their work ethic markedly.
"Normal monkeys and people procrastinate - tend not to work very well
when they have a lot of time to get the job done, and work better when
the reward is nearer in time," Dr Richmond says.
"The monkeys under the influence of the treatment don't procrastinate."
The treatment consists of anti-sense DNA - the mirror image of a piece
of one of our genes - and basically prevents that gene from working.
After about 10 weeks it had worn off, and the monkeys were back to
their usual unmotivated selves.
Dr Richmond believes treatments based on this concept could one day
benefit people with conditions like depression, where motivation has
largely disappeared from their lives.
But for the rest of us, the day when such treatments fall into the
hands of our bosses may be one we would prefer to put off.
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