Stressed workers could improve their problem-solving skills by taking a few minutes at the start of the day to write a note about something important to them, a study suggests. 一项研究表明,压力大的工作者可以在开始一天工作之前抽出几分钟时间写纸条,记下对他们来说重要的事情,以帮助他们提高解决问题的技能。 Writing a short essay about the importance of friends and family, for example, can counteract the damaging effects of chronic stress on our ability to complete tasks, researchers found. 研究者发现,通过写下诸如朋友和家庭重要性的短文,能帮助我们对抗长期压力带来的负面结果,以完成手中的任务。 Highly stressed people performed almost 50 per cent worse on a problem-solving test than a low-stressed group, but their scores caught up after carrying out the writing task. 压力大的人群在解决问题的测验中的表现要比压力小的人差50%,但如果他们先完成写字任务,表现则会好很多。 |