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| khtervola... |
 Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:06 pm |
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I noticed when I studied mathematics that my efficient working time
was four hours a day or less. Later on I hear that the forefathers of
humans who were hunter gatherers used to work that much a day. At
least for me a longer working day, like was usual, caused that I did
not understand as well what I was doing and went to repetitive tasks
that I needed not think about. Could the length of the working day -
from 8 to 12 hours on the average engineer or the like? - be a reason
for engineering sciences not advancing as fast as they could? Sure,
there are people with bad working habits, a robot like memorised way
to work which creates no new understanding, and who are well fit for
long working days and less important work. But there are also people
who could shine at half a day (no more because otherwise the ways of
working change) of intellectually demanding work, with rest of the day
completely free time to spend in gardening, sports, art, social life,
caring for children - whatever not at all like mathematical reasoning! |
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| zzbunker at (no spam) netscape.net... |
| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 10:55 am |
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On Feb 18, 3:06 am, khtervola <Hannele.Terv... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
[quote:2b91fdcc48]I noticed when I studied mathematics that my efficient working time
was four hours a day or less. Later on I hear that the forefathers of
humans who were hunter gatherers used to work that much a day. At
least for me a longer working day, like was usual, caused that I did
not understand as well what I was doing and went to repetitive tasks
that I needed not think about. Could the length of the working day -
from 8 to 12 hours on the average engineer or the like? - be a reason
for engineering sciences not advancing as fast as they could?
[/quote:2b91fdcc48]
Well, a lot of that depends how you classify engineeing science.
Robots themselves were mainly invented, since it was a common
practice for a long time to burn construction plans. amd molds,
after a certain period of time. But, that caused so much
disrupting
in the whole design process, particulary in the tooling sector,
robots were experimented with and found to do a better job
in many areas. And another problem is with modern
digital data, many people get the mistaken iimpression
that the engineering should go faster, just because data
go faster.
Sure,
[quote:2b91fdcc48]there are people with bad working habits, a robot like memorised way
to work which creates no new understanding, and who are well fit for
long working days and less important work. But there are also people
who could shine at half a day (no more because otherwise the ways of
working change) of intellectually demanding work, with rest of the day
completely free time to spend in gardening, sports, art, social life,
caring for children - whatever not at all like mathematical reasoning![/quote:2b91fdcc48] |
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