Exam 3 Flashcards
Urgency
A preoccupation with deadlines and task completion
Type A personality characteristics
-Chronic sense of time urgency
-Persistent desire for recognition
-Excessive competitive drive
-Feeling that “only I can do the job.”
-Tendency to rush the pace of ordinary conversation
Temporal Commons
Shared conceptualization of time and the set of resultant values and behaviors regarding time created by members of a culture
Delay
Tardiness regarding work-related tasks or responsibilities
Planning Fallacy
Tendency to hold a confident belief that one’s own project will proceed as planned, even while knowing that the vast majority of similar projects have run late
Research findings on the efficacy of time management tools
-Makes us feel more in control and satisfied
-No consistent link to performance or productivity
Research findings on procrastination and regret
-Weickian tip: do anything. do something.
-Errors of omission (regret) > errors of commission
-Commission = short term; Omission = long term
Parkinson’s law
-Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
-We “run out” of time
Procrastination
The action or habit of postponing or putting
something off; delay,
Role of perfectionism in procrastination
There are other (easier/more pleasant) things to do. Sometimes caused by perfectionism.
Present time focus
Impermanence and being in “the moment”
Oxytocin
Nicknamed the “cuddle hormone” or the “love hormone” is actually more properly identified as a neuropeptide
Difference between silence and stillness
Silence: Outer environment
Stillness: Inner environment
Flow
The holistic experience that people feel when they act with total involvement
Autotelic personality
-Experienced and engaged for its own sake; the experience is the goal
-Autotelic personalities pay more attention, notice more
