5 Steps to Hitting Work-Life Balance

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🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Learn about a 5-step process for finding work-life balance; photosynthetic bacteria that have never seen the sun; and why researchers build a digital model of the ancient Greek Antikythera mechanism: the first known analog computer.

A 5-step process for hitting the moving target of work-life balance by Kelsey Donk

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There are photosynthetic bacteria that have never seen the sun by Cameron Duke

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Researchers just built the most accurate and complete model of the first known analog computer by Cameron Duke

Freeth, T., Higgon, D., Dacanalis, A., MacDonald, L., Georgakopoulou, M., & Wojcik, A. (2021). A Model of the Cosmos in the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism. Scientific Reports, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84310-w
Freeth, T., & Jones, A. (2012, February). Tony Freeth and Alexander Jones. “The Cosmos in the Antikythera Mechanism.” ISAW Papers 4 (February, 2012). Nyu.edu. http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/4/
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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from
0:05.0	Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about a five-step
0:10.0	process for finding work-life balance, photosynthetic bacteria that have never seen the sun, and why
0:16.2	researchers built a digital model of the first known analog computer.
0:20.8	But satisfy some curiosity.
0:23.0	Work-life balance can sometimes feel a little mythical, like the Loch Ness monster.
0:29.0	Some people say they've seen it, while others aren't even sure it's real.
0:34.6	Luckily, a recent study is making it a little less make-believe.
0:39.6	I'm talking about work-life balance, not the Loch Ness Monster.
0:43.0	Researchers from the UK and France took a look at work life balance and found that it's not something you achieve at all.
0:51.0	Instead, it might be something you maintain in a cycle that repeats itself
0:56.7	throughout your career. Now the good news is that these researchers also identified
1:01.9	five steps to maintain work life balance in your own career.
1:06.0	For the study, researchers interviewed about 80 office workers.
1:10.0	The people were all between the ages of 30 and 50.
1:13.0	They worked in middle or senior management,
1:16.0	and they all had at least one child.
1:19.0	But there was a key difference.
1:21.0	About half of the women and a third of the men said they resisted
1:24.9	working long hours at the office. The rest did work long hours because they thought
1:31.4	that was what it meant to be professional.
1:35.0	The researchers took a closer look at the people who resisted working long hours
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