Blogger Z rules:
Good work ethic is good to the extent that it does not come from grim discipline but from good self-care.
This is brilliant. What comes out of masochism cannot be good. Work because you love yourself not because you want to self-punish.
And there is more brilliance where that came from:
One does, in fact, need large blocks of time for work. Not for the work itself — that can be done in little pieces. One needs big blocks of time because the work has to be couched in rest and recreation, in which one is not working at breakneck speed on other things, but is renewing oneself while one’s mind works on its ideas in the background.
Yes. A thousand times, yes. A lot of leisure where one reads, walks, listens to music, talks to interesting people, thinks and even cooks is crucial for intellectual growth and productivity. I don’t have a problem with generating ideas for articles. “This comes effortlessly to you,” a colleague said the other day. The apparent effortlessness, however, is a result of reading and thinking and reading and thinking all the time.
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So it’s impossible for me to have a good work ethic outside of teaching…
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unrelated link: http://www.psychologicalharassment.com/mobbing_academe.htm
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Collectives somehow sniff out weakness and without reaching any verbal agreement amongst themselves begin to attack the wounded colleague. I’m autistic so I have no idea how such tacit collective agreements are reached and how the silent decision is made of whom to attack. But I’ve seen it happen. The whole process is mystifying to me. People seem to be in constant need of playing these games, and I have no idea why. I’ve read that it feels to them like they will die without these intense social engagements that are more like warfare.
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hehehe. Yes, I agree. It is group dynamics at play — also, that “weakness” is relative to the situation. After they pick out one person who doesn’t “fit” they will move onto the next, since that is the nature of their internal need. As you have said before, they need to set boundaries to give themselves an identity.
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The Neechy says that people get a lot of pleasure from being malicious at work:
OLD AND NEW TABLES
They lay lures for one another, they lure things out of one
another, that they call “good neighbourliness.” O blessed
remote period when a people said to itself: “I will be
master over peoples!”
For, my brethren, the best shall rule, the best also willeth
to rule! And where the teaching is different, there the best ts
lacking.
If they had bread for nothing, alas! for what would they
cry! Their maintainment that is their true entertainment; and
they shall have it hard!
Beasts of prey, are they: in their “working” there is even
plundering, in their “earning” there is even over-reaching!
Therefore shall they have it hard!
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“This comes effortlessly to you,” a colleague said the other day. The apparent effortlessness, however, is a result of reading and thinking and reading and thinking all the time.(Clarissa)
You see this all the time in athletics too. People will say “they are such a natural athlete”. They miss the fact that the person they refer to has spent thousands of hours playing, running, catching, passing etc……….
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Exactly.
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Hello Clarissa,
Would you like to participate and help me improve my case study(Ethical dilemmas)?
Please complete the following questionnaire Case study for my Bachelor’s degree june 2013 – http://www.rationalsurvey.com/s/9228
If you would like I will sent you the results.
Thank you,
Laura
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If you want the project to work, consider getting a native speaker of English to proof-read it for you. Some parts of the test are quite incomprehensible because of the number of mistakes.
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I just want to second Clarissa’s point. I was going to complete the survey myself. But I actually couldn’t understand some of the questions because the language was so confusing. I don’t know if it would ruin your results at this point to revise the survey. But if you have time to do that, I would highly recommend it. Good luck! 🙂
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