when I could have said to the clients: Why don’t I give that to you in 48 hours?
The client doesn’t
care.” Overcommitting is something people experience as an
individual problem. We explain it as the result
of procrastination or Parkinson’s
law: that work expands to fil the time available. New research indicates
that
people may be hard-wired to do it.
H. A study in the February issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology shows
that people always
believe they will be less busy in the future than now. This is a misapprehension, according to the authors of
the report, Professor Gal Zauberman, of the University of North Carolina, and Professor John Lynch, of
Duke University. “On average, an individual will be just as busy two weeks or a month from now as he or
she is today. But that is not how it appears to be in everyday life,” they wrote. “People often make
commitments long in advance that they would never make if the same commitments required immediate
action. That is, they discount future time investments relatively steeply.” Why do we perceive a greater
“surplus” of time in the future than in the present? The researchers suggest that people underestimate
completion times for tasks stretching into the future, and that they are bad at imagining future competition
for their time.
Questions 1-5 Complete the summary below. Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND / OR A NUMBER from the passage for each answer. Statistics from National worker’s compensation indicate stress plays the most
important role in
1 …………….. . Staffs take about
2 …………….. for absence from
work caused by stress. Not just time is
our main concern but great expenses
generated consequently. An official insurer wrote sometime that about
