hiperkompensacja

Podobnie ma się sprawa z sytuacjami w pracy. Jeśli ktoś wykonuje powtarzalne czynności, może mu być trudno kreatynie pracować i zachowywać czujność wobec pojawiających się szans. Jeśli każda analiza nieustannie, za każdym razem, kończy się tymi samymi wnioskami, nasz instynkt powoli popada w odrętwienie. To, co powinno być poszukiwaniem doskonałości i najlepszego rozwiązania, w końcu przekształca się w mentalność każącą zadowalać się “wystarczająco dobrym” rozstrzygnięciem. Musimy utrzymywać się w stanie gotowości, tak abyśmy mogli polegać na naszym instynkcie i rozwijać go, zamiast popadać w intelektualną rutynę.

This resulted in the recognition of the principle of immunisation with attenuated pathogens.

Many of the classic discoveries were anticipated in this way but were not properly developed until the right man came along. Edward Jenner was not the first to inoculate people with cowpox to protect them against smallpox, William Harvey was not the first to postulate circulation of the blood, Darwin was by no means the first to suggest evolution, Columbus was not the first European to go to America, Pasteur was not the first to propound the germ theory of disease, Lister was not the first to use carbolic acid as a wound antiseptic. But these men were the ones who fully developed these ideas and forced them on a reluctant world, and most credit rightly goes to them for bringing the discoveries to fruition.

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W. Ostwald considered that the frequent decrease of productivity with increasing age is due to too long familiarity with the same subject.

Nothing could happen in the world by being happy

Some psychologists consider that man's best work is usually done under adversity and that mental stress and even physical pain may act as a mental stimulant. Many prominent men have suffered from psychological troubles and various difficulties but for which perhaps they would never have put forward that effort required to excel.

Diversion and holidays are very much a question of individual requirements but freshness and originality may be lost if the scientist works unremittingly for too long. In this connection a good maxim has been coined by Jowett : "Don't spare; don't drudge." Most of us require recreation and variety in interests to avoid becoming dull, stodgy and mentally constipated.