Work Stressing You Out? Play Pokemon
Feeling stressed ? Take deep breaths. Close your eyes and imagine your favorite beach spot. Try to put what you're worrying about out of your mind, think of releasing it like a balloon. Everything fail? Try playing a video game. I kid you not. That's what a new study is saying, according to newswise.com. It doesn't much matter if you're an executive assistant or marketing manager, sitting in an office. But what if you're a commercial pilot, responsible for hundreds of lives? Or a surgeon? More than half of Americans regularly experience cognitive fatigue related to stress, frustration, and anxiety while at work. Those in safety-critical fields, such as air traffic control and health care, are at an even greater risk for cognitive fatigue, which could lead to errors, the web site reports. Given the amount of time that people spend playing games on their smartphones and tablets, a team of human factors/ergonomics researchers decide...