Thursday, October 30, 2008
The Goldilocks Strategy for Choosing the Perfect Workload
Study Hacks: "The hardest part of building a quality student lifestyle is figuring out how much stuff you should be doing. Some students are clearly slackers. And some are clearly grinds. But for everyone else, especially those trying to follow the Zen Valedictorian Philosophy, a nagging question lurks: how do I know if I’m doing the right amount of classes and activities?"
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I think what this article says makes sense, except for the fact that it stressing the fact that most people who have an overloaded work schedule *choose* this. The truth for most students is that they are taking the required amount of courses for their degree, and are simply attempting to balance the lifestyle they feel they should be living on top of that. What this article should discuss is not how to choose your workload to better suit you, but how to better balance the workload you have been given.
Well it is about balancing the work load that you have been given, but you have to contribute the activities that we make for ourselves. A lot of people like to do stuff for themselves outside of classes and most of the time that gives us a greater workload.
We have to make the decisions where or not we should be part of a sports team or a club.
I agree with the chart. There is a point where you take on too much stuff and your stress increases and you crash and burn. I dont know if I agree with the rest of it. Most days I feel above and below the saturation point over the course of that one day.
I agree with Elize. There are times where I have less than 1 hour of free time a day and work like crazy, and there are days where I spend embarrassing amounts of time on the internet. Sometimes both on the same day.
However, I do feel like I sometimes don't devote enough time to activities outside of SoD as I could. Often by the time I'm done with homework and crew, the last thing I want to do is go work some more.
This clearly describes people's lives in the school of drama, to an extent. Many people get to that middle point and learn to reduce their load, and how quickly and effectively get their work done. Some people are able to figure this out and keep their lives moving on with a generally stress free environment. Then again there are people who fall into the other end of the spectrum and completely fail.
What bothered me about this article is that several of the telling signs that you are past your work saturation point are requirements, at one time or another, in the school of drama. I think its more important to know how to handle being there than to know that you are there.
Although I totally agree with many of the main ideas and arguments made, I do believe that it is a huge over-generalization. Sometimes the workload that lands on out plate is an overlaod, however it is still the reality. If we all limited the work to what we think we can do, we would not do nearly as much. Also, the allowable workload would never stretch… if you do not go beyond your threshold… you never get better!
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