Chapter 22 Chapter 5 Say goodbye to psychological depression

Depression is not a disease but it's worse than a real disease. It can not only destroy your health, but it can also be a major obstacle in your path to success. Miss Alice, the typist, came home in the evening after a day's work.Her back hurts, she's so tired, she doesn't want to eat, she just wants to sleep.Just then, my boyfriend called and invited him to dance.Immediately her eyes lit up, and her spirit came.She changed her clothes, rushed out the door, and danced until 3 a.m. before returning.She was not at all tired now, on the contrary, she was so excited that she couldn't sleep.

It can be seen that the fatigue she feels in the evening is because work annoys her and makes her bored with life.There are many such people in the world, and you may be one of them. Dr. Joseph Barmack has a report in the Journal of Psychology about one of his experiments. He arranged for a large group of undergraduates to participate in a series of experimental jobs, none of which interested them.As a result, all the students felt tired, had headaches, had sore eyes, and were constantly dozing off, throwing tantrums, and a few even had stomach upsets.By giving them tests, it is known that when a person is depressed, the blood and oxygenation of his body will decrease.Once people feel that the work is interesting, their metabolism will be accelerated.

When we're doing something fun and exciting, we rarely feel tired. For example, I was recently on vacation at Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies and fished salmon for several days.I also have to walk through bushes that are taller than a person, and step over many horizontal branches lying on the ground, but after 8 hours of hard work, I don't feel tired at all.why?Because I was so excited, in high spirits, and felt like I had really paid off: I caught 6 huge salmon.But if I think fishing is boring, how do you think I feel?I must be exhausted from running up and down the mountain at 7,000 feet.

Dr. Edward of Columbia University concluded after many investigations and experiments: "The real reason for the reduction of work energy is boredom." Where your interests lie is where your abilities lie. Below is an example of a typist. She works for an oil company in Tosha, Oklahoma.Every month she has to do one of the most boring jobs, filling out oil sales reports.In order to improve her working mood, she figured out a way to turn it into an interesting job. How to do it?She competes with herself every day.She counted the number of prints in the morning, and then tried to break the record in the afternoon, and then counted the total number of prints on the first day, and tried to break the record in the second day.In this way her speed was much faster than others, and it helped to prevent the fatigue caused by boredom, so that she saved her strength and spirit, and gained more pleasure in her rest time.

I just happen to know this story is true because I married that girl. Here is the story of another typist. Her name is Willie Gordon, and her family goes to Elmhorst, Illinois.She found that pretending that work was fun was very rewarding.She told the following story: "We have 4 typists in our office, each typing letters for several people. We often work overtime due to the workload. One day, an assistant manager insisted that I retype a long letter. I told him that as long as Just change it, don't need to retype it all. But he said to me 'if I don't do it again he will hire someone else'. I was so pissed that I had to pretend to like retype this letter for this position and salary As I was doing it, I found that if I pretended to like my work, I would really like it to a certain extent, and then I would work faster. This work attitude made me well-received by everyone. Later, a supervisor Asked me to be a private secretary because he understood that I was happy to do some extra work without complaining. The shift in mental state has done wonders for me."

Miss Gordon uses the "pretend" philosophy of Professor Hans Withinger, who teaches us to "pretend" to be happy. If you "fake" an interest in work, this little bit of faking will make your interest real and reduce your fatigue, worry, and boredom. The famous radio news analyst HV Katenberg once told me how to make a boring job fun. When he was 22, he worked on a transatlantic livestock ship, watering and feeding the animals on board.Then he cycled all over England and then to France.When he arrived in Paris, his savings were exhausted, so he pawned the camera he carried with him for a few dollars, placed a job advertisement in the Paris edition of the New York Herald, and found a job selling stereoscopes .

He didn't speak French, but after a year of door-to-door sales, he actually earned $5,000 in commissions, making him the highest-paid salesman in France that year. How did he perform miracles? At first, he asked the boss to write down what he should say in pure French, and then he memorized it by heart.He went to ring the doorbell like this.After the housewife opened the door, he began to recite the sales words taught by the boss.His French with an American accent made people feel very funny, and he took the opportunity to hand over pictures of the real thing.If the other party asked some questions, he shrugged and said "American ... American", and at the same time took off his hat and pointed out the speech hidden in the hat.The housewife laughed, of course, and he laughed too, before showing her more pictures.

When Katenberg tells these stories, he candidly admits that this kind of work is not easy.The reason why he survived.It is based on a belief: he wants to make this work fun. Every morning before he leaves the house, he looks at himself in the mirror and says, "Katenberg, if you're going to eat, you have to do this. If you have to, why don't you have a good time?" Imagine you are an actor, standing on the stage, and there are many audiences watching you below. What you are doing now is like acting, why not be happy?" These daily pep talks, Katenberg told me, have helped turn a job he once hated and dreaded into something he loves and earns him a lot of money.

I asked Mr. Katenberg if he could give some advice to young Americans eager to succeed.He said: "Yes. Make a bet with yourself every morning. We often feel the need to do some exercise to wake ourselves up from our half-asleep state. But we need some mental and mental exercise so that we can truly Get active and cheer yourself up every morning." Isn't it silly, superficial, and childish to cheer yourself up every morning?No, it is very important psychologically. 1800 years ago, Marcus Aylus wrote in one of his books: "Our lives are made by our thoughts." This sentence is also true today, and we must constantly remind ourselves.

If you don't get happiness at work, you won't find it anywhere else, because you spend most of your waking hours at work.If you regularly cheer yourself up and create interest in your work, then you will minimize fatigue, which may bring you promotion and development.Even if there are no such benefits, at least you will be able to enjoy your leisure time better with less fatigue and less worry.