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Mathieu PlourdeWork is a sort of conditioning. It's not natural to sit at a desk for hours on end, nor is it natural to perform dull, repetitive tasks, but we train ourselves to do it. Unfortunately, it's easy to lose that conditioning, and it takes a while to get it ba
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Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit (Culture)
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Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit (Culture)
By marktaw
Tue Jan 18th, 2005 at 08:22:03 PM EST
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Getting Back To Work: A Personal Productivity Toolkit (Culture)
By marktaw
Tue Jan 18th, 2005 at 08:22:03 PM EST
Culture
I procrastinate. You procrastinate. We all procrastinate. Let's get back to work.
Pavlov's Dogs
Everyone knows the story of Pavlov and his salivating dogs. Ring a bell just before feeding the dogs often enough and they'll start to salivate just because the bell rang. It happened to me today when I opened the jar of horseradish to spread on a sandwich. It's called conditioning.
One day there was a bad storm and Pavlov's lab flooded. They had to release the dogs and bring them to safety by swimming. This was a very traumatic experience for the dogs. Upon returning them to the kennels for further experimentation, some of the dogs simply stopped responding to the bell.
The animal was abnormally restless and all conditioned reflexes were practically absent, and, though usually very ready for food, the animal now would not touch the food and even turned its head away. During three days while the animal was purposely left without food its general behavior during the experiments remained unaltered. On considering various possible interpretations we reached the conclusion that this extraordinary behavior of the animal must still be an after-effect of the flood.
Conditioned Reflexes: An Investigation of the Physiological Activity of the Cerebral Cortex By Ivan P. Pavlov (1927)
So it would seem that an extraordinary event can shake us from our routines, and this state of being shaken can last for an extraordinarily long time. But it was only after two months of experimentation with the animal on the floor, and eight months after the flood, that it was found possible to return to the usual experiments with the animal.
Work is a sort of conditioning. It's not natural to sit at a desk for hours on end, nor is it natural to perform dull, repetit
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