Posted on 06/24/2025 6:29:30 PM PDT by Olog-hai
New research has found that being overworked can physically alter the brain.
Researchers in South Korea set out to understand how working long hours impact the cognitive and emotional health of employees.
The study, published in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine, assessed the brain volume of 110 healthcare workers who were classified by the categories of overworked — working greater than or equal to 52 hours per week — and non-overworked. […]
The increased brain volume as observed was found in regions associated with executive functions, (study co-author Wanhyung) Lee said, such as memory, decision-making and attention — as well as emotional regulation, such as stress management and emotional stability.
While these changes may initially reflect a need to manage “ongoing occupational stress,” according to Lee, there could be potential risks of prolonged or chronic alterations.
This could include neural strain, inflammation or maladaptive reorganization. —
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
If so, then DJT has the biggest brain in the universe.
>> I have no idea what “maladaptive reorganization” is.
It’s reorganization that’s maladaptive. You know, like maladaptive reorganization. Get it?
It means “bad changes”.
This is your brain [break egg into frypan]
This is your brain on work [place pan on burner, heat up, sizzling sound]
Just say NO to work.
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Mrs. Malaprope invented maladaptive reorganization.
“This could include neural strain, inflammation or maladaptive reorganization.” I think I finally figured out what my lifetime problem has been ‘maladaptive reorganization’.
"Work expands to fill the time required for its comtemplation."
Parkinson's law
Wikipedia
Parkinson's law can refer to either of two observations, published in 1955 by the naval historian C. Northcote Parkinson as an essay in The Economist:[1]
"work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion",
the number of workers within public administration, bureaucracy or officialdom tends to grow, regardless of the amount of work to be done. This was attributed mainly to two factors: that officials want subordinates, not rivals, and that officials make work for each other."
The first paragraph of the essay mentioned the first meaning above as a "commonplace observation", and the rest of the essay was devoted to the latter observation, terming it "Parkinson's Law".
First meaning
The first-referenced meaning of the law – "Work expands to fill the available time" – has sprouted several corollaries, the best known being the Stock-Sanford corollary to Parkinson's law:
If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute to do.[2]
the Asimov corollary to Parkinson's law:
In ten hours a day you have time to fall twice as far behind your commitments as in five hours a day.[3]
as well as corollaries relating to computers, such as:
Data expands to fill the space available for storage.[4]
"Parkinson's law of triviality" is not to be confused with Parkinson's law.
The law of triviality is C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 argument that people within an organization commonly give disproportionate weight to trivial issues.[1] Parkinson provides the example of a fictional committee whose job was to approve the plans for a nuclear power plant spending the majority of its time on discussions about relatively minor but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bicycle shed, while neglecting the proposed design of the plant itself, which is far more important and a far more difficult and complex task.
The law has been applied to software development and other activities.[2] The terms bicycle-shed effect, bike-shed effect, and bike-shedding were coined based on Parkinson's example; it was popularized in the Berkeley Software Distribution community by the Danish software developer Poul-Henning Kamp in 1999[3] and, due to that, has since become popular within the field of software development generally.
>> Of What? Brain cells?
Or something. Look, these are trained PH.D’s; they have lots of experience in writing precisely vague stuff.
“Work never killed anyone, but why take chances?” ~RR~
Exactly, and in the process, your brain grew stronger.
The left has solved that problem, they have no brains and seldom if ever work.
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