{"id":261,"date":"2020-10-07T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.12.124.99\/?p=261"},"modified":"2020-10-07T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:10:00","slug":"the-happy-secret-to-better-work-a-digital-corps-discussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bsu.edu\/digitalcorps\/2020\/10\/07\/the-happy-secret-to-better-work-a-digital-corps-discussion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Happy Secret to Better Work: A Digital Corps Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s no secret that hard work and success lead to automatic happiness, right? We make goals for ourselves, achieve them, set another,&nbsp;and continue this endless cycle, but where does happiness fit into this&nbsp;seemingly simple equation?&nbsp;A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nickbennett1\/2018\/11\/18\/the-secret-of-success-is-it-happiness\/#71358756aa99\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">survey conducted by&nbsp;Udemy<\/a>&nbsp;found that&nbsp;out of&nbsp;1,000&nbsp;full-time&nbsp;American employees, 50% reported they feel more stressed today than they did a year ago.&nbsp;Where is the happiness we associate with hard work and&nbsp;success?&nbsp;Do we keep working hard and meeting goals only to have a short burst of happiness,&nbsp;or do we hold the power to rewire our positivity and&nbsp;ultimately change&nbsp;how we view the world and, in conjunction, our work? This exact idea was recently&nbsp;tested&nbsp;by a group of Digital Corps students and staff who sat down to discuss this idea of \u201cbetter work.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>\u201cI think it&#8217;s important to have these discussions to have a&nbsp;<strong>sense of community and socialization while also holding serious conversations<\/strong>&nbsp;about a variety of topics that encourage better understanding of these topics and how they can relate to our lives!\u201d <\/p><cite>-Jolee&nbsp;Edge on why TED Talk Discussions&nbsp;at the Digital Corps matter<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Task&nbsp;at&nbsp;Hand&nbsp;<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of a TED Talk discussion led by&nbsp;Jolee&nbsp;Edge, a Graduate Assistant at the Digital Corps, the small group of&nbsp;students&nbsp;and&nbsp;staff watched&nbsp;psychologist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_better_work?language=en#t-717072\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Shawn&nbsp;Achor\u2019s&nbsp;TED Talk<\/a>&nbsp;entitled \u201cThe Happy Secret to Better Work.\u201d&nbsp;After watching the video,&nbsp;students&nbsp;and staff&nbsp;met&nbsp;via Zoom&nbsp;to discuss&nbsp;their thoughts&nbsp;and comments&nbsp;and to undertake&nbsp;Achor\u2019s challenge to improve their&nbsp;quality of work and&nbsp;life.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through&nbsp;his&nbsp;research, Achor&nbsp;found that&nbsp;success does not create happiness.&nbsp;He discovered that as you make&nbsp;new achievements, your brain begins to&nbsp;set higher goals for itself to reach, creating an endless cycle of&nbsp;achievement&nbsp;that is out of reach.&nbsp;Throughout the TED Talk, Achor challenged listeners to rethink their assumptions about success creating happiness.&nbsp;He&nbsp;provided&nbsp;5&nbsp;small&nbsp;changes that&nbsp;could&nbsp;assist&nbsp;in rewiring our brains to be more positive,&nbsp;and in turn increase productivity, creativity, energy, and intelligence. They are:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.12.124.99\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/7f2d3183162042cf5cd12e41d36f6369.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-273\" width=\"396\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/10\/14195622\/7f2d3183162042cf5cd12e41d36f6369.jpg 500w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/10\/14195622\/7f2d3183162042cf5cd12e41d36f6369-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/10\/14195622\/7f2d3183162042cf5cd12e41d36f6369-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><figcaption>Shawn&nbsp;Achor&#8217;s&nbsp;TED Talk slide containing the 5 ways people can boost their positivity<em>.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Students&nbsp;and staff&nbsp;discussed&nbsp;the changes they would&nbsp;make as&nbsp;well as the&nbsp;various barriers that could stop them from reaching their goal. One topic that was prevalent among the participants was the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic,&nbsp;which has&nbsp;affected overall positivity and motivation&nbsp;for many people.&nbsp;Digital Corps&nbsp;students have struggled to stay positive and motivated because they&nbsp;now work&nbsp;remotely outside of our typically fun, engaging, and productive office.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amelia&nbsp;Cisna, a Communications Specialist at the Digital Corps, noted&nbsp;that \u201cWorking at the Corps during the pandemic has been especially hard, since it&#8217;s normally a very collaborative office. It&#8217;s been harder to stay motivated when our office culture is hindered in a sense; I definitely thrive in social environments, so having to social distance and communicate mostly online has been difficult to adapt to.\u201d&nbsp;Cisna&nbsp;took the challenge and found that it \u201cforced&nbsp;[her]&nbsp;to recognize all of the opportunities\u201d she still has, like attending Ball State and working at the Digital Corps.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"http:\/\/3.12.124.99\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-27-at-2.58.28-PM-1024x685.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/10\/14195621\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-27-at-2.58.28-PM-1024x685.png 1024w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/10\/14195621\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-27-at-2.58.28-PM-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/10\/14195621\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-27-at-2.58.28-PM-768x514.png 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/10\/14195621\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-27-at-2.58.28-PM-1536x1028.png 1536w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/10\/14195621\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-27-at-2.58.28-PM-2048x1371.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Students and Staff of the Digital Corps discuss the 21-Day Challenge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After&nbsp;discussing&nbsp;the video&nbsp;and&nbsp;choosing which changes the students and staff would&nbsp;make,&nbsp;participants&nbsp;were then randomly paired with a&nbsp;buddy&nbsp;who would&nbsp;hold them accountable and check in on how their desired changes&nbsp;affected them.&nbsp;Finally, the video&nbsp;posed&nbsp;one main idea&nbsp;that stuck&nbsp;out from the rest&nbsp;and would serve as a guide for the challenge:&nbsp;<strong>I<\/strong><strong>ndividuals<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>ultimately shap<\/strong><strong>e<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;the way they choose to see the world<\/strong><strong>,<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;which affects how content&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>they<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>feel about&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>their<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>reality<\/strong><strong>.&nbsp;<\/strong>With this idea&nbsp;in mind, the&nbsp;group of&nbsp;Digital Corps students and staff&nbsp;took&nbsp;the 21-day challenge to rewire their positivity and alter the way they see the world&nbsp;with just a small, simple change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Student<\/strong><strong>s&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>and Staff&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Take the Challenge<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone was excited to see how the changes they&nbsp;made would&nbsp;affect their positivity&nbsp;and work&nbsp;performance.&nbsp;Genevieve Eldred, a Design Apprentice, originally took the challenge because she&nbsp;wasn\u2019t&nbsp;sure how the semester would go. \u201cI chose to&nbsp;journal,&nbsp;and I was able to keep with it and it actually was really helpful,\u201d Eldred says.&nbsp;She struggled to&nbsp;stay&nbsp;motivated to&nbsp;journal,&nbsp;but she persisted and kept up with her goal. Eldred states, \u201cAs a result, I have only seen that it makes me more positive and able to go with the flow, both in life and at work.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.12.124.99\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271\" width=\"419\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/10\/14195616\/image.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/bsu-wpe-blogs.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2020\/10\/14195616\/image-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><figcaption>Genevieve&nbsp;Eldred&nbsp;taking the 21 Day Challenge by Journaling in her notebook.&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video Specialist&nbsp;Lochlin Peters&nbsp;wrote&nbsp;down 3 positive&nbsp;things&nbsp;and&nbsp;limited his social media usage.&nbsp;Peters wanted to stray away from the negative side of social media and focus on the best things&nbsp;throughout his days&nbsp;to&nbsp;boost his positivity. \u201cIt was tough keeping up with&nbsp;both, but I certainly did both more often than I did before the challenge. I\u2019d say I did see an increase in my positivity particularly when writing\/thinking back on the positive moments of my day,\u201d says Peters. Overall, he is glad that he took the&nbsp;challenge,&nbsp;and he can&nbsp;see&nbsp;how it has encouraged him to be more&nbsp;thoughtful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One student who found the challenge especially tough was User Experience Specialist Hailey Leonard.&nbsp;\u201cI chose to focus on exercise, since I don\u2019t do that as much with being remote for both classes and work\u2026I was hoping that it would encourage me to go outside more, since being remote has kept me indoors more than I would usually&nbsp;be,\u201d Leonard describes.&nbsp;Unlike&nbsp;other students,&nbsp;however,&nbsp;Leonard found it especially hard to stay motivated to do the challenge,&nbsp;and&nbsp;while she did occasionally&nbsp;&nbsp;exercise by going on frequent walks, the chaos of online classes, work, and other commitments made it tough for her to keep up.&nbsp;For Leonard, the motive&nbsp;was a great initiative and effort to take, especially in the current climate of the world.&nbsp;Even though keeping up with the challenge was rough, she still was able to dedicate some time to meeting those goals she set.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>After the Challenge<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After 21 days, students and staff met again to discuss how the challenge went for them, and the coronavirus persisted as a hot&nbsp;topic.&nbsp;For some students, completing their goals became impossible&nbsp;because of&nbsp;COVID-19&nbsp;barriers. Some students struggled because they were exposed to COVID-19 and had to quarantine.&nbsp;&nbsp;For many of the students, this put a&nbsp;wrench&nbsp;in the challenge and&nbsp;didn\u2019t&nbsp;help with their positivity levels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the participants said they had&nbsp;a good&nbsp;experience&nbsp;doing the challenge, with some saying that they would want to try the challenge again.&nbsp;But were the changes worth it? Well,&nbsp;students&nbsp;and staff&nbsp;found that&nbsp;the 21-days&nbsp;didn\u2019t have much of a difference. However, some participants found it helpful for the short time during the challenge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, the challenge did prove to have&nbsp;some ups&nbsp;and downs.&nbsp;Despite&nbsp;decreased morale from the pandemic and other daily obstacles, those who took the challenge felt good when completing their goals&nbsp;and saw&nbsp;this impact their life and their&nbsp;performance at&nbsp;work.&nbsp;Some&nbsp;students&nbsp;rewired their brains and&nbsp;noticed&nbsp;a sense of happiness and increased productivity while they worked. The challenge,&nbsp;while difficult at times,&nbsp;was useful,&nbsp;and students hope to continue using the goals they chose as a part of their daily lives to increase their positivity.&nbsp;The Digital Corps constantly&nbsp;encourages&nbsp;its students to strive to be the best that they can be and&nbsp;to push themselves&nbsp;to exceed expectations, but&nbsp;staff and students should also celebrate small victories as well.&nbsp;Ultimately, the&nbsp;real secret to happiness&nbsp;and better work is&nbsp;self-care.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where is the happiness we associate with hard work and success? Do we keep working hard and meeting goals only to have a short burst of happiness, or do we hold the power to rewire our positivity and ultimately change how we view the world and, in conjunction, our work? 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