Tigers son…

In the morning, it is getting late to get to the place where you do your work activities, your eyes shine every time you talk about your projects and everywhere you look for training courses to grow professionally and learn more of what you are passionate about.

Even in order to grow professionally, there are times when your work becomes a priority in your life, to the point of putting it above a commitment to someone.

If you identify with this scenario, you may also have received multiple criticisms and even the recommendation to take care of the way you relate to your activity, they fear that you are a workaholic , although the truth is that in your environment you are like a fish in the water and few things make you as happy as your work.

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Tigers son…

That pleasure to give yourself fully to your work, is known as a cult to work and unlike the work addiction . The first is assumed with an attitude and objective association, as explained Luis Arciniega, researcher of labor psychology at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM).

"A person who has a cult for his work places it in the first or second place of priorities in his life, but this does not mean that he stops having other activities or that he neglects his loved ones, but that he seeks balance and most of Sometimes he comes to ask for support so he can combine everything. "

"He also has the ability to move his priorities, that is, he loves his job, but if his mother or son becomes ill, he has no problem leaving him to care for his family," says the expert.

Love for work is not the product of chance, it has a close relationship with the fact that you have chosen your area of ​​development well, for example, someone who studied medicine with the conviction that it really was his passion, will love what he does He will enjoy doing it and will dedicate as much time as he can to practicing it.

"But it is also something that is learned, generally those who have that devotion for their work, it is because they grew up in an environment where this was seen as a real good and it was respected," which helps to grow professionally, says Luis Arciniega.

"The commitment is a decision, not an obliged act". bojorge@teleton.org.mx