How to Manage Your Work-from-Home Paranoia
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Learn 4 tips for managing WFH paranoia; flat-pack pasta; and how eye contact is affected by the shape of a dog’s face.
4 tips for managing your WFH paranoia by Kelsey Donk
- Managing Your WFH Paranoia. (2021, April 28). Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2021/04/managing-your-wfh-paranoia
- Is Remote Work Making Us Paranoid? (2021). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/style/is-remote-work-making-us-paranoid.html
- Jacobs, E. (2020, June 18). Paranoia creeps into homeworking. @FinancialTimes; Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/e50ce245-09fd-4831-a90b-953ef51a2281
Scientists have created flat-pack pasta that curls into shape in water by Steffie Drucker
- Executive Summary: Environmental Footprint Literature Review — Food Transportation. (2016). State of Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. https://www.oregon.gov/deq/FilterDocs/PEF-FoodTransportation-ExecutiveSummary.pdf
- Tao, Y., Lee, Y.-C., Liu, H., Zhang, X., Cui, J., Mondoa, C., Babaei, M., Santillan, J., Wang, G., Luo, D., Liu, D., Yang, H., Do, Y., Sun, L., Wang, W., Zhang, T., & Yao, L. (2021). Morphing pasta and beyond. Science Advances, 7(19), eabf4098. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf4098
- CMU lab leads development of pasta that morphs into shape when cooked. (2021). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/cmu-cll043021.php
- Gael Fashingbauer Cooper. (2021, May 6). This strange, flat pasta transforms into 3D shapes as you cook. CNET; CNET. https://www.cnet.com/news/this-strange-flat-pasta-transforms-into-3d-shapes-as-you-cook/
- Flat Pasta That Turns Into 3-D Shapes — Just Add Boiling Water. (2021). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/science/pasta-3d-flat.html
- Video: https://vimeo.com/543657466
Your dog’s face shape determines how easily it makes eye contact with you by Cameron Duke
- Bognár, Z., Iotchev, I. B., & Kubinyi, E. (2018). Sex, skull length, breed, and age predict how dogs look at faces of humans and conspecifics. Animal Cognition, 21(4), 447–456. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-018-1180-4
- Bognár, Z., Szabó, D., Deés, A., & Kubinyi, E. (2021). Shorter headed dogs, visually cooperative breeds, younger and playful dogs form eye contact faster with an unfamiliar human. Scientific Reports, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88702-w
- Eötvös Loránd University. (2021, April 29). Researchers determine which dogs more often establish eye contact with humans. Phys.org; Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2021-04-dogs-eye-contact-humans.html
- Gácsi, M., McGreevy, P., Kara, E., & Miklósi, Á. (2009). Effects of selection for cooperation and attention in dogs. Behavioral and Brain Functions, 5(1), 31. https://doi.org/10.1186/1744-9081-5-31
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Gody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | Today you learn about four tips for managing your work from home paranoia, |
| 0:12.0 | shapeshifting pasta that could help save the planet, |
| 0:15.0 | and how your dog's face affects the way |
| 0:18.0 | it can make eye contact with you. |
| 0:20.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:22.0 | If you've ever felt yourself getting paranoid about Let us find some curiosity. |
| 0:22.6 | If you've ever felt yourself getting paranoid about whether your boss is mad at you or |
| 0:27.1 | whether your coworkers or talking behind your back, you're not alone. |
| 0:32.0 | As an office worker, there's plenty to be paranoid about and when you work remotely without the ability to judge body language and facial expressions, that paranoia can get even worse. |
| 0:43.0 | Luckily, research shows that there are things you can do to cut down on that feeling |
| 0:48.0 | that everyone else on Zoom is thinking bad things about you. |
| 0:52.0 | And some of this could help you get through the work we is thinking bad things about you. |
| 0:52.8 | And some of this could help you get through the work week, |
| 0:55.3 | even if you are going into the office. |
| 0:57.7 | So let's go through four recommendations |
| 1:00.0 | from Harvard Business Review. |
| 1:02.3 | First up, make your expectations clear with your colleagues. |
| 1:06.5 | It's important to go over your preferred communication style, |
| 1:09.7 | how you like to make decisions, |
| 1:11.7 | and what you'll do if there's a conflict before starting on a project. |
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