This is FiveMinuteFriday, Coronavirus.
Welcome back to the SuperDataScience podcast, everybody, super excited to have you back here on the show. Thank you very much for tuning into these episodes. In this episode, I wanted to touch on what’s going on in the world about the Corona virus right now. It’s terrible to see how this disease is plaguing our planet and how it’s affecting people, communities, and even countries.
The death toll is rising and more and more places are going into lockdown and I’m sure you’ve read and heard a lot about it. I’m not here to give you, provide you with news or coverage or with more fearful facts about this very serious situation.
But what I wanted to say is something from my personal experience is a wish for everybody to just be patient and most importantly with one another. Because in these situations, when we are going into lockdowns and we have to stay indoors and spend time by ourselves or with our loved ones, it can be very easy to have lots of fallings out. And what I mean here is that different people have different natures.
For example, I know from my personal experience that my girlfriend and I, we have different personalities in terms of how, where we get our energy.
I’ve considered myself to be an introvert and she considers herself to be an extrovert. She loves being around people. She recharges, she feels full of energy when she is in large groups of people. I feel recharged, I love being in large groups of people and spending time with people. But at the same time I need to invest energy to do that effectively and to have a good time. And I feel recharged when I spend some time alone or spend some time working or contemplating life or whatever else.
And so we recharge in different ways and now we’re moving into a world where people are being forced to do, through no ill intentions, but just that the fact is that we need to stay indoors and we need to engage in this new concept of social distancing.
People are being forced to do one thing more than the other. And that is staying away from people. And that can cause tensions. When for instance, if your partner, they are more extroverted, they need more social interaction. Both of you need to be patient. The other partner, if you’re introverted, for example, like in our case you cannot become all the social interaction for them, right? Because then you will feel drained and you will feel low on energy or irritable or sad or whatever else.
So unfortunate situations as such, there’s no winning if just one party prioritizes. So if you are at home or locked down with people with different personalities, it’s important to be aware of what kind of needs you have and for everybody to be aware of each other’s needs and to respect those needs.
So for instance, we sat down with my girlfriend today in the morning we said, okay, so this is happening. We have to stay. Like there’s no other people to hang out with. We can’t go to social gatherings. We’re going to be spending most of the time with each other. You need a lot of social interaction. I need a lot of space. How do we come to balance?
And we’ve come up with a system where we’re actually going to measure and track and I can update you on how this went. Like in theory, sounds pretty reasonable or pretty solid, what we’ve come up with. We’re going to track how much, how we’re feeling, our energy levels three times a day. Each one of us is going to track their own energy levels and we know like if she’s not having, if her energy levels are down, that means she’s not having enough social interaction and then I’ll make sure to spend some time with her.
Some like in the next couple of hours or the other way around. If my energy level is on low, I need to spend some time alone and recharge.
And unfortunately that’s the world we’ve come to right now. That’s the situation right now. So rather than not thinking about these things consciously, not being mindful of individual people’s needs in the communities or in the groups that you end up spending these weeks with, and then that causing a fights, quarrels, resentment and even breakups or people not wanting to talk to each other and all sorts of conflict.
Rather than that happening, my wish to you is try to preemptively assess that and see how you can make sure that everybody’s needs are met and everybody is feeling good, that the scales are not weighted in one way or the other.
And hopefully we can all get through this as a society or as societies and as countries. And we can look back in a few months, look back at this and see this as a terrible, but at the same time valuable experience on how we can all live better together and understand each other better.
And on that, my friends, once again, thank you so much for being here on the SuperDataScience podcast and let’s get through this together. I look forward to seeing you back here next time. Until then, happy analyzing.
