work & adhd

Mein Team ist alles für mich?

Indem sie die Identifikation mit dem Team mit erhoben, stießen die Psychologen auf ein bisher kaum beachtetes Paradox: Was erwünscht ist, eine hohe Identifikation mit Arbeitskollegen, wird bei Jobunsicherheit offenbar zu einem zusätzlichen Risikofaktor für Burnout. Denn auch die Identifikation mit dem eigenen Team spie... See more

A call to playfulness is not an individual psychological prescription – it is a call to collective action against the achievement society.

But we should also be careful not to fall into the self-help trap. Any injunction to ‘find your inner child’ or to ‘seek out your play personality’ without structural change risks being a toothless act. It’s not just an act of personal rebellion but a social imperative.

Finally, it would require that we develop the skills and capacities to play – to give ourselves over to those things that are intrinsically motivating, those things that are not ‘overshadowed by the dark clouds of purpose’.

Third, it would require a movement away from efficiency and productivity as primary indicators of social wellbeing.