Most office jobs, and even managerial positions, are geared towards people with average to slightly above average IQ.
This is the vicious circle. 1. They are not engaged/stimulated so they do the bare minimum. No fulfillment & sometimes they make errors.
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2. There is no incentive for them but they feel their errors are due to laziness, something their superiors readily point out.
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3. If they remain in the position despite their absent motivation, they are in a constant tug of war with themselves to fulfill it.
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4. At some point their disinterest manifests in ever more errors or ovesights, which they are hold accountable for and must deal with.
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5. By this point, the pressure is so big that they begin to question their own intelligence and ability, rather than the job/motivation.
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6. Some start to use drugs or alcohol as means of relief. Others fall into a chronic depression that affects every part of their life.
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7. Being in that state, to quit the job and find something else, rekindle their interest and ambition in life is next to impossible.
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8. At this point they have completely lost any semblance of their true capacity. All they see is misery & failure and identify with it.
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9. They have not exercised their true intelligence in years and it has left them. They don't access it and think themselves to be idiots.
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10. They don't see the real problem anymore : that they operate well below their true potential. They rationalize this as 'getting older'.
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11. They become trapped. The bar is set so low and the requirements in time and effort so high, zero motivation and it's all a stuggle.
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12. And when everything is a daily struggle without any actual reward, people suffer a lot. This is where mind-numbing jobs bring people to.
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If you are in one, get out while you have the time. Don't say too long, it will eat away at your capacity for intelligence and all else.
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A mind-numbing job is exactly that—It numbs you, and the intelligent are not the least at risk, but the most at risk, and the most to suffer
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Don't reach the point where you wilfully put on handcuffs and go into a prison cell everyday because you believe you have no choice.
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