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Happy People are Productive People

A famous French memoir writer, Francoise de Motteville, once said, "The true way to render ourselves happy is to love our work and find it in our pleasure." This quote is one that I find meaningful and very true. Loving what we do brings about happiness, and in my opinion is the reason why we do what we do.

Happiness is a very strong human emotion that benefits us immensely. It acts as a beam which supports a person's belief in life, and it goes a long way in motivating a person in his or her road to success. As such, I agree with the statement "happy people are productive people" to a large extent.

A happy person is one who is at ease with himself or herself, and is in a stable emotional state. He or she is also less inclined to giving up when meeting with a problem during a task. Psychologically, it has been proven that a happy person is mentally stronger than someone who is not. When frustrating obstacles appear in the process of fulfilling a task, a happy person is much less likely to break down or give up as compared to someone who is not happy. Thus, from the emotional point of view, a person who is happy is more apt at surmounting challenges, and performs with a high level of productivity.

Happiness also drives a person's interest and desire to excel. It is a widely regarded fact that a person who is interested in something is highly more likely to do well at it. A happy person therefore is more driven to come up with high grade work. Also, the happy person's desire to excel influences him or her to not only mechanically complete tasks at hand, but to find ways to improve current conditions as well. Therefore we see that happy people not only boost work quality, they also import a dimension of value-addedness to their work.

Although some may argue that happy people do scale back on work at times to partake in external activities such as hobbies, holidays and relaxing activities which affect productivity, I perceive this as maintenance of a person's emotional balance, which in the long run is actually more beneficial in terms of productivity as compared to someone who is an unhappy workaholic. A workaholic can never maintain his or her frantic pace of work for long, and is usually overworked and under-rested. It is usually a matter of time before he or she burns out or worse, suffers a breakdown. As a result, at this point of time that person ceases to be productive. Compare this to a happy person who regulates his or her work rate, and we can see the scales are tipped in the happy person's favor in the long run.

Looking at the preceding paragraph, it may be valid that in the short run a workaholic will outperform a happy person in terms of productivity. However, I am averse to looking at the topic statement with such a myopic view because productivity should be regarded as a long term attribute. Therefore, with the above 3 paragraphs illustrating the benefits of happiness, I stand by and strongly support the notion that happy people are productive people.

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