Does working hard really make you a good person? | Azim Shariff
TED Business
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The Perverse Incentives of Workism
Our intuition that effort is good for its own sake, regardless of what it produces, has created a work environment with perverse incentives. When we start attaching worth to activity rather than to productivity, we start caring more about whether somebody is a hard worker or not. And this can come at a very steep human cost. How often are we wearing workaholism as a badge of honor? Even if the person you're just trying to reassure is yourself.
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