Decoding the Mindset of Someone Who Has Fun Working Hard
Many young people I talk with don’t understand the mindset of those who describe hard work as fun. By hard work I’m referring to work that requires drudgery, fatigue, and toil for long hours. It appears like a mindset defect when someone describes hard work like this as fun.
How could suffering through drudgery, fatigue, and toil for long hours be fun?
The truth is that drudgery, fatigue, and toil is not fun if you need to be happy to have fun. However, everyone doesn’t need to be happy to have fun.
The mindset of someone who has fun working hard through drudgery, fatigue, and toil for long hours orients their view of the work with a mindset of satisfaction instead of happiness.
According to research done by the winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics psychologist Daniel Kahneman, happiness and satisfaction are two distinct things:
Happiness is a momentary experience that arises spontaneously and is fleeting. Meanwhile, satisfaction is a long-term feeling, built over time and based on achieving goals and building the kind of life you admire…
…Satisfaction is retrospective. Happiness occurs in real time.
Simply stated, those who view fun through happiness can never see hard work as fun. On the other hand, those who view fun through satisfaction embrace hard work as being fun.