151. How Has COVID-19 Changed You? | COVID-19如何改變了你
– Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 8.13.2023
According to the World Health Organization, the pandemic is no longer a global health emergency. People are returning to their normal lives, students are going back to school, vacationers are booking trips, shops are reopening, restaurants are offering in-house dining, and workers are returning to their offices.
On the surface, things seem to be back to the normal pre-pandemic days, but in reality there have been significant changes — some temporary, and some permanent. How have you personally been changed? It may be time to assess and reflect on your work, career, family, and social life.
A good way to do such an assessment is to re-examine the 5 key success factors for career and life and see how you have been impacted and changed.
- Understand yourself: Extraverted and introverted people dealt with isolation, social distancing, and remote work very differently during COVID-19. For me, an extravert, I had to go to the mall, grocery store, and other places with people to get energized. What have you noticed about your personal traits?
- Appreciate human relations: We are all social creatures. Zoom meetings and social media connections can never satisfy our yearning for physical interaction: the joy of a hug, a friendly slap on the back, or a hearty laugh.
- Learn new skills: Online communication, digital commerce, time management, and remote learning are skills we needed to survive the pandemic. Have you become proficient in these and other new-age skills?
- Diverse knowledge: The pandemic heightened the need to integrate knowledge from many fields to find a cure. Remote work, online school, Coursera, and AI search engines gave us tremendous opportunities to acquire new knowledge more easily and more timely.
- Strong personal values: With so much uncertainty and the health threat, we became more aware of our fragility and vulnerability. How will you use what you have learned to create values for others and society?
With these key success factors, I hope you have been changed by COVID-19 for the better and become a stronger and more resilient person.
COVID-19如何改變了你 (2023/08/13)
-作者 許俊宸博士
-中譯 薛乃綺
根據世界衛生組織(WHO)的說法，疫情終於結束了！人們開始恢復正常生活，學生回到學校、想度假的就去安排旅行、商店重新開張、餐廳提供內用服務、上班族則回到了辦公室。
看起來，表面上看起來一切都回到了疫情前的日子，但實際上卻有一些明顯的改變；有些是暫時的，有些則是永久性的。你覺得自己有什麼變化嗎？也許是時候評估和反思自己的工作、職業、家庭以及社交生活了。
有個重新檢視並評估職場與生活的五大關鍵成功因素的好方法，看看你受到了哪些影響和改變。
1. 了解自己：在COVID-19期間，外向和內向的人對孤立、社交距離和遠距工作的應對方式大不相同。對我來說，作為一個外向的人，我需要去商場、雜貨店和人多的地方，才能感覺到活力。你有沒有注意自己的人格特質變得更明顯了呢？
2. 珍惜人際關係：我們都是群居動物，視訊會議和社交媒體的聯繫永遠不能滿足我們對實質互動的渴望，無論是擁抱、拍肩膀還是大笑，都帶來了喜悅。
3. 學習新技能：線上溝通、數位商務、時間管理和遠程學習都是我們在疫情中生存所需的技能。你是否在這些新科技或其他技能上變得更熟練了呢？
4.增加多元知識：疫情提高了我們整合來自多個領域的知識，來找到更好的綜合解決方案。遠距工作、線上學程、線上學習平台以及人工智能搜尋引擎等，都為我們提供了更容易、更即時能獲取新知識的大好機會。
5. 強固的個人價值觀：處在如此高不確定性和具有健康威脅的環境下，我們更加意識到自己不論在身體或心靈上的脆弱性。你將如何利用自身所擁有能為他人和社會創造不同的價值？
在這些關鍵的成功因素中，期待我們彼此因為COVID而轉變得更好、成為一個更加堅強有韌性的人。不管怎樣，繼續保持正向的態度，我們都會一起走出這段特殊的時光！
