Why is work boring?

Irvin Chauke
Aug 22, 2017 · 2 min read

Because it is not interesting. We are the creatures of habits but we are bored by routines. When our brains gets comfortable in something the excitement cease to exist and now we want to exit.

Our ancestors had a different pyschological patterns. It helped them to track animals and kill them without being killed. These mirror neurons has changed. We live in a different environment; we don’t hunt to eat , we shop. There’s a huge difference from our how ancestors lived and us.

Although the changes happened and they are major, human nature hasn’t. Once we have food and shelter, we long for meaning — meaningful relationships, meaning work, etc. The challenge with this is clarity and description: We are not clear about what we want therefore we cannot describe it. Further, there is a part of the brain which tricks us to believe that what we think doesn’t exist but that is how it gets to exist — by thinking about it.

With industrialization — we have agreed to comply , earn more and work more with less or no meaning. We build work\jobs that are far off from what will make people happy and fulfilled. We try to build infrastructure in the work environment to capture the meaning but it doesn’t last because it far off from what people long for — meaning, certainity, growth, contribution, significance, etc

Usually, we build from our own eyes not from the eyes of the employees. It is because we are scared of the demands of the employees; they might ask for more and we will lose on the profits. Little do we know that once people are allowed to ask anything they ASK nothing.

As humans, we cannot decides what is great work with having an experience. So have to do more than one to decide what is meaningful.

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Irvin Chauke

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Founder of Ymotivation and Co - founder of Africreads. He is a Blogger , Authour , Speaker and Peak - performance coach.

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