Benjamin Todd
speaker
4,140 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 28 May
Benjamin Todd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 2.
Appearances
We've applied the research on positive psychology about what makes for a fulfilling life and combined it with research on job satisfaction to come up with six key ingredients of a dream job.
These are the six ingredients.
1.
Work that's engaging.
What really matters is not your salary, status, type of company and so on, but rather what you do day by day and hour by hour.
Engaging work is work that draws you in, holds your attention, and gives you a sense of flow.
It's the reason an hour spent editing a spreadsheet can feel like pure drudgery, while an hour spent playing a video game can feel like no time at all.
Computer games are designed to be as engaging as possible.
What makes the difference?
Why are computer games engaging while office admin isn't?
Researchers have identified four factors.
1.
The freedom to decide how to perform your work.
2.
Clear tasks with a clearly defined start and end.
3.
Variety in the types of tasks.
4.
Feedback so you know how well you're doing.
Each of these factors has been shown to correlate with job satisfaction in a major meta-analysis, R equals 0.4, and they're widely thought by experts to be the most empirically verified predictors of job satisfaction.
Showing 961–980 of 4,140 · page 49 of 207
← Previous
Next →