Wringing Advantage from Virus Adversity
[This article was published in The Weekend Australian on Saturday 28 March 2020] Crises can change behaviour permanently, sometimes for the better. For example, the need to share work around during the Great Depression helped kill off the six-day working week, creating the ‘weekend’. Unexpectedly, we discovered something we liked, and kept it. Sometimes there is light in the dark. Enforced social distancing over the coming months might also change some behaviours. We will have a different relationship with time, and some people will cope with that changed relationship better than others. Here are ten ways to make friends with time, and maybe lighten things a little. They won’t pay your bills, but they might help you wring some advantage from adversity, for you and for others, and maybe permanently. One. If you bought tickets to a live performance that’s been cancelled, consider donating to the artist or venue instead of asking for a refund. You’ll feel better. You’ll he...