In my own experience, a rush meant doing one repetitious task much quicker: processing checks, scrubbing plates, hauling trays.
I started to feel vaguely annoyed, and sort of bored-in-advance, at the repetitious task that lay before me after I had completed roughly 15 sun salutations.
Rejecting the nascent women's-liberation movement, she nevertheless blamed sexism for the G.O.P.'s failure to fully embrace its most strenuous conservatives: The Republican Party is carried on the shoulders of the women who do the work in the precincts, ringing doorbells, distributing literature, and doing all the tiresome, repetitious campaign tasks.
Skill discretion, measured by six items such as "keep learning new things', "can develop skills", "job requires skills", "task variety", "repetitious", and "job requires creativity", and decision authority, measured by three items such as "have freedom to make decisions", "choose how to perform work", and "have a lot of say on the job".
Not just those of us doing repetitious or "mechanical" tasks will be replaced.
Some women — and men — find "repetitious, socially invisible, physical tasks" mind-numbing and stultifying; some don't.
The crux of her argument is as follows: The family — with its repetitious, socially invisible, physical tasks — is a necessary part of life, but it allows fewer opportunities for full human flourishing than public spheres like the market or the government.
However, IVR programs can be tedious and repetitious for more complex tasks, where web-based audio and visual cues can be more helpful and patients can remain engaged for longer time periods.
Studies of neuroplasticity suggest that repetitious movements optimise changes at brain level, and that this response is optimised if the task is challenging and engaging.
