Whistling while you work may not win you many friends – but it could help you do your job better. A leading psychologist claims whistling or singing helps distract the mind from trying too hard and prevents mental overload.

Far from being down to ‘just nerves’, choking occurs when the brain finds itself with too many pieces of information to process, resulting in ‘paralysis by analysis’, argues Dr Sian Beilock of the University of Chicago. The same holds true when presenting a vital sales pitch, making an important putt or doing an audition. Dr Beilock, who used brain scans to study what is going on the mind during high pressure situations in the lab, said: ‘Choking is sub-optimal performance, not just poor performance.

Even singing helps stop parts of the brain that might interfere with performance from taking over, she said. She has dubbed the phenomenon paralysis by analysis – when people try to control every aspect of what they are doing in a bid to ensure success. The researchers found that the brain can also sabotage performance because too much pressure is put on ‘working memory’ – part of the prefrontal cortex which focuses explicitly on the task in hand. Although the most talented people usually have the most working memory, anxieties and worries overload it, meaning the brain is no longer able to perform.

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Caught Twittering or on Facebook at work? It’ll make you a better employee, according to an Australian study that shows surfing the Internet for fun during office hours increases productivity.

The University of Melbourne study showed that people who use the Internet for maverick money makers personal reasons at work are about 9 percent more productive that those who do not.

Study author Brent Coker, from the department of management and marketing, said “workplace Internet leisure browsing,” or WILB, helped to sharpened workers’ concentration.

“People need to zone out for a bit to get back their concentration,” Coker said on the university’s website.

“Short and unobtrusive breaks, such as a quick surf of the Internet, enables the mind to rest itself, leading to a higher total net concentration for a days’ work, and as a result, increased productivity,” he said.

According to the study of 300 workers, 70 percent of people who use the Internet at chopper tattoo engage in WILB.

Among the most popular WILB activities are searching for information about products, reading online news sites, playing online games and watching videos on YouTube.

“Firms spend millions on software to block their employees from watching videos, using social networking sites or shopping online under the pretence that it costs millions in lost productivity,” said Coker. “That’s not always the case.”

However, Coker said the study looked at people who browsed in moderation, or were on the Internet for less than 20 percent of their total time in the office.

“Those who behave with Internet addiction tendencies will have a lower productivitythan those without,” he said.

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I feel upset now.
It seems that we all have a big big dream but few of us can really realize it. Sometimes I find it not easy to make it into practice. This is not because of myself. I am not just me,myself, on the earth. There are lots of burden,or we can say, the responsibilities around us as we are growing old.

I do know what you called you are not yourself. I am despiting myself as well. I want to be an elegant woman who has her own carreer, her own lover, her own family. However, it seems that I just have a small vote to make a decision. Living in such a highly development society, we are becoming more and more impulsive by the influence of the technologyical world. Everybody is lured by the magnificence. To be honest, we are loving the new and loathing the old. Fresh things have a big temptation to us.
We like to experience the new.

Grandparents told me that there was no need to move to another city to live a hard life. Instead we can have comfortable life with our families in such a small city. As for the marriage, the blind date is quite a good way.

Oh. Is this the new situation we are confronting now? We have to be so realistic to face all the problems? And we just live a life for a life. Nothing special. No! That ‘s not I want. I want to experience the new. I find myself being restrained when I put myself in the traditional way.

Yeah. But how to make a balance? I need to work and study hard,to know more about the world,to know what is the right and suitable thing for me! But I also have seen the cruelty, that a dream is just a dream. The pursuit of happiness is not simple. Mark Twain had experienced a harship. He gained a keen perception of the human personalities and know what is the complex of the subtleties of our psychology. So that is a way to experience.

Thanks for your reading.I wrote the above text several days ago. I put it here because I think we should keep having our dreams. But now after I have seen it one more time. I feel great pressure.

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And I have a question that if you are a English major, what kind of job do you really want?

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