What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
The video explains the psychology behind ‘workaholism’ which is seeing the behaviour/phenomenon of workaholism from the perspective of psychology. It will become my very first outline in this project that includes the definition, indicator, and categories of people identified as workaholics.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
The speaker’s purpose is to inform the audience about the concept of workaholism, when it is first mentioned, why it happened, and what the person with workaholism looks like.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
At first, I doubted the reliability of the information here since they don’t give any resources/references for further readings. However, I have done my own research and found that those are valid sources. After all, they mentioned the sources but not literally in a separate section (in the script), so the audiences are expected to look it up on google for their own benefit.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
The speaker initially disagrees with the workaholic attitude as he addresses it as an ‘addiction’ and defined it with rather negative connotations. However, when he comes to the categories, which are engaged workaholism and non-engaged workaholism, he dropped the subjectivity and just go neutral on the topic. In the end, he leaves it to the audience whether to agree or disagree.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
The argument that he build that I noticed is that workaholism is not all bad as long as ones put the work proportion to some certain degree. The argument is strengthened by the statement of Academy of Management that “Work engagement may actually protect workaholics from severe health risks”. It means that if ones engaged well in their jobs, they may avoid health risks due to overwork. I think it is a strong argument
Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
I can get the big picture from this video to create my outline. And the most beneficial thing is that I can pick the information as well as the resources from the content and recreate it for my project.
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
The clear definition of burnout and the symptoms of people indicated that they burn out. People often misunderstand burnout as laziness while in fact, they are different. Burnout is “a negative state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive stress and an inability to cope with it.” Burnout is often temporary so it is not a trait.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
The speaker’s purpose is to explain in detail burnout and its symptoms. However, she does not mention the reason behind it at all. The symptoms are:
– You feel disconnected from everything
– You used to be motivated
– You used to be passionate
– You’ve become moody & irritable
– These changes happened gradually
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
It is really trustworthy because even when the creator does not add the resources to the video, they put it in the caption and the resources are all research articles. The channel is also reliable since it has millions of subscribers and it is well-known for its scientific but eye-pleasing videos.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
Yes, the speaker’s tone seems to disagree about burnout. It is the behaviour that really disadvantages the person and lessens productivity. The speaker even mention how the person should consult to professional if they are having these kinds of symptoms
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
The argument of the speaker is that burnout is not the same as laziness. The argument is supported by each symptom she presented. One of them is when she mentioned that laziness is a character trait so it is most likely to stay stable over time, but a person with burnout used to have motivation and passion.
Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
I can put this information about burnout as one dangerous effect of workaholics. They are closely relatable but I should still look for supporting data for my argument. I can also put the symptoms for opening to get the audience’s attention.
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
Why people are eager to do certain work, most of them are due to money or needs of life. However, there are some others who are willing to do their work even when their needs are already fulfilled. People who work that they feel meaningful and worthwhile tend to be happier and healthier, instead of doing something they feel pointless or shameful.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
To educate and inform to the audience that not all workers/employees work for money
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
It is highly trustworthy because the people making this video include sources in the description box. Not only that, all the sources come from either books from an expert author or government sites. The speaker is a man.
The sources of this video are:
‘The Selfish Gene’, ‘The Extended Phenotype’ and ‘The God Delusion’ by Richard Dawkins.
The Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work – Edited by Ruth Yeoman, Catherine Bailey, Adrian Madden, and Marc Thompson – https://books.google.com.au/books?id=…
Volunteering and health benefits in general adults: cumulative effects and forms by Jerf W. K. Yeung, corresponding author Zhuoni Zhang, and Tae Yeun Kim – https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti…
Data on Australia’s Welfare: Volunteers (2019) – https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/austr…
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
The speaker’s tone seems to be neutral since the purpose of this channel and the video is only to educate as a bridge from researchers and academics to common people. The video is not introducing workaholic at all but it support the main reason why people work so hard. The reason make a clear distinguish between enthusiastic workaholic and non-enthusiastic workaholic.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
Yes, the speaker argues that the reason people work is less obvious than for financial or material gain. The key arguments to support lays in “meaningfullness”. People who find meaning in their work will tend to be happier than those who don’t, even when it’s unpaid job.
The second reason is the innate desire to contribute to a community.
Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
This video will be included in tha part of my project in “reason behind workaholic”. It’s a neutral tone video so that it will never judge whether people doing workaholic in a positive or negative way
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
The video is still discussin a lot about ‘why people work?’ but it gives us indepth analysis with understandably easy analogy and experiment of why people work? So, apparently, people work not just for money, but not because of joy either. Being happy is not necessarily the part where they keep on doing the work. They care about the challenge and the meaning behind it, even when the process is painful and tiring. In this video, Dan introduces us to 2 experiment that bring concept of the meaning in work.
Pay people to bild Bionicles
The first experiment is “Pay people to build Bionicles”. So Dan ordered people to build a lego and create a form of animals,
The first condition of the experiment is called “Meaningful condition”. Dan told the participants that per bionicles the they build, they get 3 dollars, but it will decreased by 30 sen per additional bionacles they made.However, the bionicles will be put under the table after they are finished
The second condition is called ‘Sisyphic condition’ inspired by Sisyphus who was punished by gods to take a huge rock on top of the hill but then the rock will be rolled over down the hill again, over and over again. There is something about this cycle of doing over and over again of the same activity that makes people demotivated. Now, in this condition, the participants will be asked to build bionicles for 3 dollars and lessened by 30 sen as they accepted the next offer to build another one. But what makes it different by the Meaningful condition is that when they build the next bionicles, Dan and his team will disassemble the bionicle the participant made previously. And they do it over and over again until the participant said they don’t want to anymore.
When they compare both condition’s result, people in Meaningful condition build more bionicle than in Sisyphus condition (11 and 7 bionicles). However, when Dan asks people to predict the result, they understand the meaning of importance but fail to understand the magnitude of the importance as they only predict that participants in Meaningful condition will build 1 more bionicle than participants in Sisyphus condition.
Other shocking result is that the correlation between the love of legos and the amoun of bionicles the participants have build exists in the Meaningful condition, but did not exist in the Sisyphus condition. It means that disassemble the bionicles in front of the ones build it is the same as crushing their joy.
Paperwork
A sheet of paper full of random letters put together in rows were given to the participants, and they are asked to identify letters that were identical next to each other. The money distribution to give were the same as Build the bionicles.
The first condition of it is that once the participants had done the task the examiner will look at it briefly and said ‘uh huh’ and put it down
The second condition is that once the participants had done the task, the examiner will not look at it at all nor scan it and just put it down
The third condition is that once the participants had done the task, the examiner directly put it into the shredder right in front of them.
The result is interesting. The Acknowledged condition’s participants do the task until pay rate was 15 cents. The shredder condition did the task just until 30 cents.
However the ignorance condition was almost like the shredder, just below it It means that ignoring the effort of people is almost the same as shredding their effort/joy
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
The main purpose of the speaker is to tell us that making people enthusiast in their work is actually possible. It does not require money or anything. You just have to appreciate their work and enjoyment of the task. That’s when people think that their work is meaningful
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
It is highly trustworthy first, because it is ted talk and only people with deep knowledge and approved work can do a ted talk. Second, the speaker is Dan Ariely and when I browsed about him, he is apparently a researcher in behavioural economics.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
Dan’s tone and attitude subtly encourage people to be aware about the fact that motivational work doesn’t always come from money, but instead from a little thing like appreciation. He seems implicitly suggesting work environment to be this way.
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
Yes, all his arguments and experiments support the idea of enthusiastic work ethics.
Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
This video will support my ideas of enthusiastic workaholic or dedicated worker, of why they do what they do. And to what extent we can contribute to the long term of their positive work ethic.
What is being discussed in the video? Explain your answer.
Almost the same as the previous video, this video also talks about how people can maintain the motivation to work. How some people quit immediately and how others keep on pursuing their careers.
Turns out, it doesn’t have to do with IQ (tend to correlate with the ability to learn quickly and easily), physical health, etc, but it’s about Grit. Grit is passion and perseverance for a very long term. Angela had done lots and long journeys of experiments in various environments of research for this result and findings.
So, how to build grit? Growth mindset is the one most correlated with grit. This is an idea developed at Standford University by Carol Dweck, it is the belief that the ability to learn is not fixed and it can change with our effort.
What is the speaker’s main purpose? Explain your answer.
Speaker’s purpose is to educate people that to work hard, we don’t actually depend on IQ, social intelligence, or good looks, but we have to build grit.
How trustworthy is this video? Who is the speaker? What is the source? Do you think the source and the speaker are trustworthy?
It is highly trustworthy. The speaker is Angela Lee Duckworth who is a researcher, co-founder, chief scientist, and a member of Character Lab.
What the speaker’s attitude or tone towards the subject? Does he/she seem to agree or disagree with it? Explain your answer.
Angela’s attitude and tone clearly tells us that grit, passion, and perseverance is what we need to make people want to work in a long term. And it applies in any context, situation, and environment
Does the speaker put forward valid or strong arguments? How does he/she support the key points? Explain your answer.
Yes, even though she just give a little detail about her research, it still support a lot about what she argues
Explain how this article will help contribute to your larger group project.
This video will contribute more to my project in a part where I talk about enthusiastic workaholic