Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is good for you and your boss

Re:Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is go... by tarlar on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:21PM (#12321677)

Just to clarify, as you make it sound like that fixed budget is something inherent in yourself; however there is evidence that you can influence what that budget is http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pspp0000014

Full paper PDF: https://psychology.stanford.edu/sites/all/files/Implicit%20T...

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Re:Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is go... by nitrogen on Friday August 19, 2016 @01:49PM (#12321898)

I've only read the abstract. Does the paper address the possibility that people with more willpower might believe it's unlimited? Or that having more willpower in total allows some of tbat willpower to be allocated to the meta-allocation of willpower?

What is the direction of causation?

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Re:Less stress, more productivity: working fewer hours is go... by treehau5 on Friday August 19, 2016 @04:40PM (#12323307)

Now that you mention it, I should have left out "fixed" in "fixed budget" (Also goes contrary to the second book I listed, ironically

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