DOES FATIGUE PRODUCE WORRY?

Fatigue lowers our resistance to the emotions of fear and worry. You cannot continue to worry if you relax. To prevent fatigue and worry, rest often.

Rest is not a matter of doing absolutely nothing. Rest is repair. There is so much repair power in a short period of rest that even a five-minute nap will help to forestall fatigue.

If you can’t take a nap at noon, you can at least try to lie down for an hour before the evening meal. If you can sleep for an hour around five, six or seven o’clock, you can add one hour a day to your waking life. Why? How? Because an hour’s nap before the evening meal plus six hours’ sleep at night- a total of seven hour- will do you more good than eight hours of unbroken sleep.

A physical worker can do more work if he takes more time out for rest. Frederick Taylor demonstrated that while working as a scientific management engineer with the Bethlehem Steel Company. He observed that laboring men were loading approximately 121/2 tons of pig iron per man each day on freight cars and that they were exhausted at noon. He made a scientific study of all the fatigue factors involved, and declared that these men should be loading not 121/2 tons of pig iron per day, but forty-seven tons per day! He figured that they ought to do almost four times as much as they were doing, and not be exhausted.

Taylor selected a Mr Schmidt who was required to work by the stop watch. Schmidt was told by the man who stood over him with a watch, “Now pick up a ‘pig’ and walk….. Now sit down and rest….. Now walk…. Now rest.”

What happened? Schmidt carried forty-seven tons of pig iron each day while the other men carried only 121/2 tons per man. He was able to do this because he rested before he got tired. He worked approximately 26 minutes out of the hour and rested 34 minutes. He rested more than he worked, yet he did almost four times as much work as the others.

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