Is There a Dark Side to Working on a Boring Task?

The more you have one task in your portfolio of five or six that's off the charts and intrinsic motivation, the more your performance suffers on less interesting tasks. We wondered if there's a dark side of working on an intrinsically motivating task that it could make your boring tasks even more dull in, you know, injects to position. And that's basically what we found. The research was just accepted for publication in the last few weeks. So it's hot off the presses, but it's not even on the presses, it's in press.

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