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I am not a psychologist, and what follows is reading and reflection on a handful of studies, not advice about your life.
A friend turned 52 last month and said the line everyone says eventually: "I don't feel 52." I have heard versions of this from people in their thirties, fifties, seventies.
Picture someone at the end of a long day.
A quick note: I am not an economist, a psychologist, or an organizational scientist.
In 1981, two psychologists published a short paper in the Journal of Organizational Behavior that quietly influences how a lot of us talk about being worn down by work.
In May, the former chief executive of Google stood at a podium at the University of Arizona, looked out at the class of 2026, and told them artificial intelligence was about to remake the world the way the computer once did.
In August 2019, Microsoft Japan closed its offices every Friday, gave its 2,300 staff a three-day weekend on full pay, and capped meetings at 30 minutes.
It is unusual for a prediction to be half right and half wrong at the same time, but that is basically what happened in the case of John Maynard Keynes.
Scroll Instagram or YouTube for ten minutes and you will be told, in various tones, that discipline is the answer.
There was a Monday in Dublin, sometime in my early twenties, when I watched a senior colleague walk back from a meeting and thought, very clearly, that I did not want his Monday Nothing was wrong with him.
In a 2000 study by Gilovich, Medvec, and Savitsky, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , participants were asked to put on a T-shirt featuring a potentially embarrassing image and walk into a room full of other people.
Imagine this. You're forty minutes into a piece of work.
