Tasking For Trouble If You Don't Sort Jobs

Trinity boffins say 'get it done'

- SEAN MURPHY

THE secret to managing unpleasant workloads has been unmasked by scientists at Trinity College Dublin.

For generations, people have experimented with the best way of just getting those tasks that we just do not want to do done.

Some people forge ahead with head bowed until all the ugly tasks are completed in one fell swoop, while others split them up into bite-sized portions.

But, a Trinity spokesperson said: "It is actually a good idea to do all the tasks you don't like in one go.

Harvard University psychiatry Prof John Ratey authored a book called Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain and advised that exercise helps us to reach "high-performance levels in intellectually demanding jobs".

But the joint Trinity study suggests that on days when you face high work demands, you should just push through and do one unpleasant task after the other. The Trinity spokesperson said: "This is instead of frequently switching between pleasant and unpleasant tasks.

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