Looking for a job? How about becoming a smile coach? Today's signal looks at the rise of the smile coach, teaching people to position their faces in ways that are not distressing to fellow people after 3+ years of masking.
This made me think of the "air rage" that was all the rage last year after long haul airlines reopened - and passengers who had been stuck in long lockdowns had become essentially feral and unsocialised, forgetting how to "people" in confined spaces.
I suspect the long-run de and re socialisation effects of increasingly digitised, disconnected life will be with us for some time.
Do you think you could benefit from a smile coach (I know me and my "resting bitch face" would!)
Have you struggled to "re socialise" yourself or your work team post lock-down and remote work?
Read more :
How to smile for humans : https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/world/asia/japan-covid-smiling-lessons.html
When air rage was all the rage : https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/23/air-rage-during-the-pandemic-where-it-is-and-isnt-happening-.html
Unsocialised kids (and adults) -https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/04/worried-about-how-the-pandemic-has-affected-your-child-we-ask-the-experts
How to smile