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Every week, the mood is like a roller coaster ride-Monday is often dull and Friday is fun. The study does prove that people's emotions fluctuate in a seven-day cycle, with Mondays being the most negative and Saturdays the most positive.

The question is, if you have to schedule an important and difficult task next week and you need to schedule it on your own, would you choose to schedule it on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday?

In an American study, researchers continuously measured the emotional levels of 179 college students and found that their average emotional levels fluctuated regularly with a cycle of exactly one week, with Monday being the most negative and Saturday the most positive. Reference [1] when you are in the best mood on Saturday, of course you can't arrange work. Is that Friday? In addition to the emotional roller coaster, there are some other mysteries during the week. If you understand them, you may be able to get twice the result with half the effort!

Monday is painful, but it can also be a golden day, whether it's a student going back to school or staff reworking. it's always unpleasant to leave from weekend leisure time. After all, people instinctively avoid stress and pursue happiness, but in fact, painful Mondays can also be self-motivated.

A survey from Robert Half, an international human resources company, found that 56 per cent of people thought they were more productive at the beginning of the week (such as Monday and Tuesday), and 29 per cent of respondents thought Monday was the day with the highest job output, so Mondays, despite their bad mood, tend to be more focused on work. On a daily basis, nearly 3/4 of respondents thought they had the most work done before lunch.

Why do you have better job performance at the beginning of a week or a day? It may be because of the "Fresh Start Effect" [4].

Every Monday is a new beginning, with the opportunity to turn over a new leaf | Giphy people always pin their hopes on new beginnings, such as setting goals for the coming year in the New year, writing down generous work plans at the beginning of the quarter, and each beginning is like saying goodbye to your past self, reviving yourself, and starting a new struggle with a positive attitude.

A good beginning is half done. If you like the feeling of "turning over a new leaf", you might as well take advantage of the start effect and set aside a piece of time every Monday to plan well and go to work with new expectations.

Compared with other days, Monday's mood is also more likely to affect the motivation of work and study.

Our great translator also said that a study surveyed the weekly mood and academic motivation of college students and found that Monday's good mood leads to higher academic motivation, and Monday's bad mood is more likely to lead to self-criticism.

Especially for self-demanding perfectionists, if they think that learning tasks are onerous and stressful, and lack independent motivation, they will feel more negative when they go back to school on Monday. In contrast, Mondays are more positive and enjoyable when you think your learning goals are interesting and meaningful.

No one can stop me from doing my homework! | memes.tw going back to school and work can sometimes make people feel mournful, but if you can arrange some small things to make you happy, tell yourself, "it's okay, it's good to start", reduce perfectionism, and look for the meaning of study and work, it can help you get through Monday more smoothly, bring up positive emotions, and get off to a good start to the week.

In addition to Monday, Tuesday is also in the first half of the week, and it is also an efficient day, and some surveys have even found that Tuesday is more productive than Monday. This may be because Monday spends more time planning and getting the body and mind to adapt to the work week, while Tuesday can maintain or even improve productivity.

So, if you want to schedule some important or difficult tasks, you can try to put it on Monday and Tuesday.

For managers, it's best not to bring employees to a meeting on Monday morning-it's a valuable and productive time for employees, and it's a pity to have a meeting.

Endless meetings, endless sleep | Giphyr confused Wednesdays and Thursdays, as well as messy Fridays, painful Mondays and happy Fridays are always impressive, and the rest of the days are often a mess. If I ask you on Wednesday, "what day is it today?" There's a good chance you'll have to think about it, or even accidentally say Tuesday or Thursday.

A British study found that people are more likely to misremember the working day in the middle of the week. In the experiment, subjects were more likely to make mistakes in their judgment of midweek (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) than on other days, and it took more time to think even if the judgment was correct, and the judgment on Wednesday required the most reaction time, more than twice as much as on Monday and Friday.

The study also found that there are fewer semantic associations for "Tuesday", "Wednesday" and "Thursday" than other workdays, with similar levels of emotional arousal and fewer search engines.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, silly can't make a clear distinction | the days of spitting leopards / Weibo are easy to be confused because people's inner impressions of them are more insipid and similar, and Mondays and Fridays are remembered more clearly. because they have richer and unique meaning, give people a more extreme feeling.

In English, Wednesday is called "hump day" (Hump Day), because Wednesday, like a hump, is the middle stage of the working day, after which people begin to crumble.

A work management app "Redbooth" found on app data statistics in 2017 that work completion has been declining since Wednesday, with the fewest tasks completed on Fridays, accounting for 16.7% of a week's work, probably thinking about what to play on weekends.

The heart of Friday has flown away | Ref. [2] so you can arrange the important things as far as possible. After all, you can't even tell the day on Wednesday, and the mind of Friday has already flown to the weekend.

Is Monday really that painful? Try emotion tracking Monday is really so painful, Friday is really that happy? Maybe there is an element of subjective exaggeration.

A study by the University of Sydney found that when people predict their mood every day of the next week, they tend to underestimate their mood levels on Mondays and Tuesdays. In fact, in the following week, Mondays and Tuesdays will not be as low as they thought. Other days are not as happy as they expected. Not only are they biased in their predictions, but they are also more likely to rate Monday and Tuesday's mood lower when they look back on the past week.

People tend to be biased in their predictions and memories, thinking that Monday and Tuesday are very painful, but in fact you may be in a good mood on that day. [7] Monday morning is not necessarily worse than any other morning. In the interview, many subjects were surprised by the pessimistic impression of Monday. In fact, there were many happy things on Monday, such as sharing their weekends with colleagues. And the actual feeling on Monday has more to do with what actually happened that day.

Therefore, although the seven-day emotional cycle is common in people, in fact, each week is different, emotions do not fluctuate entirely in accordance with subjective predictions, and people's similar feelings about a particular day are likely to be due to long-term stereotypes. instead of being affected by biased emotional expectations, explore your own emotional cycle.

You can record your mood every night and write down a sentence or two about what you experienced today, and you will gradually find that emotional tracking (Mood Tracking) is an effective way to use emotional App or emotional diary to create a space for yourself to reflect on the progress and feelings of the day and to be more aware of your mood swings.

Long-term records can show patterns of mood changes. For example, you may be more anxious and sad on Sunday nights, or you may be in a better mood on Tuesday afternoons. Using these data, you can find out the reasons behind these mood swings and change or accept them calmly. By exploring your emotions, you may know when you can immerse yourself in concentration and when it's time to get off work and have a cup of milk tea.

reference

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[2] Everybody's Working for the Weekend, But When Do You Actually Get Work Done? Https://redbooth.com/blog/your-most-productive-time

[3] Early Bird Gets The Worm: New Survey Reveals Productivity Peaks For Workers Across 28. Cities https://press.roberthalf.com/2019-07-25-Early-Bird-Gets-The-Worm-New-Survey-Reveals-Productivity-Peaks-For-Workers-Across-28-U-S-Cities

[4] Sotak, K. L., Spain, S. M., Dionne, S.D., & Yammarino, F. J. (2021). Weekly patterns of motivation in students in higher education: a time series spectral analysis. Educational Psychology (6), 1-23.

[5] Brenda, Harvey, Marina, Milyavskaya, Nora, & Hope, et al. (2015). Affect variation across days of the week: influences of perfectionism and academic motivation. Motivation&Emotion.

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