got some tips for your bucket list. to corner. for some. and some great country memorials to boot. w. trouble we go. to. the digital world is the big winner in this pandemic walking from home online shopping education live streaming the internet is growing stronger lockdowns have forced firms into digitizing and it's giving us newfound freedoms like flexible work and the chance to keep in contact with family and friends on a different level but it all comes at

a price the 2 faces of digitalisation topic today are made well it's game over for a number of top level e sports professionals the so-called athletes have hit on an incredibly lucrative business opportunity over the past few years which we've reported on before but this young stars have also found out all those hours in front of a screen and the global pressures of the entertainment sector can fast become a health hazard emilia hemphill reports. claiming his film is becoming it go to activity to relax and socialize and escape from the pressures of everyday life. this is me hanging out with some friends there's no way any of us could make it to the professional level what's jump again at x. but for a growing number of people playing videogames is providing a golden ticket to saying. legions of found. sports is. moved into

a fee industry young game is all around the well to pursue a shot at the big time but what price when you look at the stats of today's professional players the average retirement age is between just 23 and 25 years old . physical and mental burnout is a growing problem for professional sports players it's not something that's widely acknowledged within the industry. as a finding starting to speak out and cool for a change. better known as. you'll already know he is born in sweden playing professionally since the age of 20 gaming legend widely regarded as one of the best counterstrike global offensive players in history. 2015 he helped power his former team fanatic to weld number one and was awarded the title of most valuable player will m.v.p.

i've been gaming my whole life of course i loved it but there was also some kind of escape you could just. escape in another world and you don't have to think about anything else but just the game and think that's something that i really enjoyed but following a wrist injury and 2016 the pressures of real life and the grueling competition schedule started to become overwhelming and everything that i was just a lot bigger of this a lot for tournament sort of more pressure like normally when it's not corona we were with travel look to travel like 2 on the plus days a year if not more and it's kind of stressful for your mind because you always have something where you have to perform and one of those times was something. that people analyze what you did wrong and everybody has so many opinions in 2017 he took a short leave of absence due to personal reasons just couldn't a slave take good i was just thinking about the game try to force segment on like.

being stressed almost every day all times all of came back refreshed but then in may of 2020 shocking his fans he announced in a tweet that he would be taking an extended break from professional gaming due to fatigue strain on his mental health and lack of motivation to compete it's so hard because if you see a team playing 8 hours a day that are better than you they want to play my own hours today because you want to be the right that it just keeps going like that then you have like 12 hours practice like 5 hours individually and you could do that for every day i don't think it can be good for you with the cut of a pandemic adding even more pressure to train around the clock a number of the best players in east for to or announce career breaks this year citing burnout and stress. medical professionals in the gaming industry have been concerned for years about the health impacts of overtraining sleep deprivation and players taking unregulated energy supplements we're seeing so much burnout we

unfortunately had a couple deaths in the community this year people need to be addressing the mental health people and to be addressing the physical health of these athletes or or were standing repercussions are any a lot of the reasons are we're pushing these gamers well beyond how far we should be pushing anyone let alone an 18 year old kid and we're not giving them the correct support you know gaming is a pastime in sports as a career is so much money at stake professional gaming teams like excel e sports are starting to make more holistic changes to safeguard the health of that player as we are doing blood tests we're having nutrition companies supporting us you know working out we're focusing on sleep was the trick of say using in the n.b.a. my name is head of performance or my status as really quite surreal that i have to tell the players to play less if people have a burden of or have issues they're just getting replaced and in my point of view

the organization is responsible or mainly responsible by is this effort has this large started a growing number of top the sports teams starting to build support for their players health into their contracts providing team houses and personal chefs fitness and performance coaches physios and mental health training but industry wide and for smaller teams don't have many official regulations that are actively safeguarding professional players they are sleeping too that they are having not a structure at all so they go to bed at 3 at 5 pm they are not having enough sunlight they're looking at brightman to be their nominee don't have to cook so the nutrition is really bad in football for example will be off to a kid. muse and be of coaches and so on any sports there's no coaching no sense yet and the end it's nice to be successful not a lot of money but it's a really really disgusting when

a person is 25 or 30 and has to stop what they are doing because it's really unhealthy for them and they have lifetime issues with. one of my state is now back playing professionally again with his team face time but the road to recovery has been a challenging one i've been working out a lot more and tried to eat a lot more health think that helps me there are a lot more players are a lot more stress than they would like to admit to the public without people saying anything in the schedule will just be the same on the end it's not good for people self useful it is still a very new industry but as the tournament's in the prize money get bigger protecting young professionals from physical and mental burnout is going to become an important challenge. the pandemic has bankrupted countless businesses and continues to do so millions are out of work but when you hear the experts saying that there's no better time to start your own business than

in a crisis you have to learn how to scrimp and save when financing dries up you have to find customers when there's no demand and you need a really good idea last year i met the founder of a tiny startup in spain that's created an eco friendly healthy and affordable beacon state from a 3 d. printer a year on the company continues to grow and continues to wow the skeptics but even tastes pretty good to tell you the truth. well well my colleague to sound bites on the bus of the biotech for some tips on how to develop a successful stop. people felt there was a very good beginning we have fields deferred through the prepared plan because. i'm going to push on see theo and found out what i mean which is a tech startup in barcelona working on the future of land they need it is my advice for you to give that like to start. to

develop your idea your purty good effect will keep your passion when the balance i come from a tie or the 5030. 54050 you're nearing the quick i've been working all my life i have maybe. building organs for you know my results for biomedical corp with it so the beginning i want it to be secure i've never had a top of the floor but suite created the new because i want you created your basic knowledge if you want to find feedback from the safety of my case for example a way to bury me with check if this was a crazy idea or you could be me fair and one fair very interesting or many people would set up a period tell you that people are not paid then you have. to drive if you go forward. very importantly defining that sector i will be the fault of the very good product but that we need

to find the best way to bring the problem to market so you can find the right 550 and the right that at most for example up be to be 30 people would meet for example you know or create that direct plan or book retail and here you are not thinking without the right people at the right. the market. start at the very 1st don't think so. it's not a complicated and even in the case that something doesn't go as you think then bible meeting that you can take another direction and here we are. it is very hard to find a better talented people so you are one more time and that is not important because it seems. to stay with you for a long time so you don't want just to post. online and look for the people to come to you you really sometimes ones who pick the right people so going to find

the right people at the right places and i mean we have to see him in a logical theory call it the performance and then we have the meter which we call the box where the performance the. people that are focused on that knowledge it's the business name is paul who's done talking to that investor the client the partner. you want to find the right team but my own strategy was to look for b.b.b. to do better on the media so that. would contact me and say hey we are interested in what you are believe we should spoke about it and i feel that if you don't feel that your county europe for example i am for me but they are being paid already you cannot find the right but that you have now are doing you have guys are going to people from all over the ward investing in your company.

the next step is to scale meaning that especially in our case where we have a very strong mission a very strong vision which we want to create a sustainable future. well you need to scale up to bring gifts that because bob brown says these are national so the next step is to raise more money bring the says 2000 stuff below the production pay a dollar and allow our whole scott on a lot to be a baby in the boat all over the war in the next 5 to 10 years i hope that by 5 or so mandation as you start seeing your business base there. good tips for business there but how about some tips in organizing our daily lives in the pandemic social distancing to avoid the coronaviruses change so many things paradoxically to some it's resulted in better health fuel communicable diseases like colds and flu but everyone gets sick some time out to visit the doctor in times of limited access to

medical consultation on line. cloudy lush uk took a look at the growing field of tele medicine she started by booking a virtual appointment herself. i need to see a dermatologist at short notice. the next available appointment is in 4 months time . but then i discover a doctor offering online consultation. after entering a few personal details on her website i find myself talking to her just a few minutes later. the next day yes i think tied my hands have been really really dry for quite a long time now and the egypt it to talk mindful plan washing your hands more frequently might even pages in his natural protective barrier this can lead to a kind of eczema so the 1st thing you need to do is apply hand cream a lot more often than. the online consultation costs 30 euros i consider

that a price worth paying if i had a problem i was concerned about as i get help quickly and easily. in many cases we can look at the patient to make an assessment based on the severity and extent of the problem and then also determine the degree of urgency of course that's no substitute for personal contact you still need doctor's surgery for physical checking all for certain technical equipment needed for a more precise diagnosis. yet. the video consultation serves as a preliminary finding for diseases where a visual cue. by the doctors enough this form of to tell medical treatment has only been permitted in germany since 2019. in the coronavirus era patients are happy for the opportunity to save time and avoid risk of infection and demand to soar. like so many other areas of life medical care is now also becoming

digitalized. people with chronic conditions can for example have their blood pressure monitored remotely by staff at a clinic. next i talked to a health care management expert florian kind says patients in germany have become increasingly receptive to the concept of telemedicine this is lead to greater willingness among investors to provide funding that enables young companies to acquire new technologies carbon dioxide can get a lot of firms in germany of insufficient funding. that's especially the case with startups but that's no changing in some areas we're seeing many parts of the health sector getting a lot more capital. enable us to catch up with us for example our companies now have a better set of all round with competent teams so they can develop a broader scope. and for good. the digital boom has benefited and given birth to a lot of startups swedish company crew has developed

a digital health app that allows users to consult with a doctor of life after registering online patients answer a series of questions about their symptoms and can then request an appointment. cruise network now extends to 900 doctors across europe covering all manner of medical conditions. to hire an infection inspect terrio infections headaches many different types of pain diarrhea and vomiting eye infections everything that normally a general practitioner would deal with at short notice. try putting your head down said that your chin meets your chest. is that painful yes yes i feel it on the right side of my head where the pain was. the services available in scandinavia france britain and now in germany to its doctors speak

a range of different languages and germany consultations are offered in german or english. prescriptions sick notes and referrals are all issued electronically but doesn't that raise data privacy concerns i still feel a lot of are a lot of people will have questions because it's all so new and data privacy concerns are always great when it comes to health matters. we're seeing people getting used to it pretty quickly because they know that it works and that doctors who have tele medical treatment training are able to find out a lot by asking the patient questions and his if you are also for. digital applications are now commonplace in the health care world in addition to remote consultations they now also enable aftercare for acute and chronic diseases ordering medication compiling patient data and even psychotherapy services. when it comes to serious or life threatening conditions there is no substitute for

a proper visit to the doctor but telemedicine can offer supplementary help and in germany for example health insurance companies now cover both types of treatment. now all that digital work during the pandemic has highlighted the need for a new generation of computer savvy specialists children these days tend to be immersed in a digital world right from the very beginning but what about us older people if you're looking for a job and can afford the training boot camps offered to bring you up to speed in just months it could be worth it because companies a desperately looking for professionals who can drive digitalisation. the global economy is in trouble supply chains spanning the planet have been disrupted the pandemic has highlighted the limits of the present economic system and the importance of digital technologies noire fisher is a county in hamburg that describes itself as

a school and pool for digital talent but. we are seeing growing interest in training in digital professions because of the crisis. offer short courses it calls boot camps to train people in computer related fields . of 3 month course in danger signs for a university graduate costs a little under $9000.00 euros. training as a web developer costs just under 8000. digitalisation combined with coronavirus we're being forced to deal with these things now that. flexibility and the willingness to go new ways are more important than ever that holds for training courses to remote learning is the order of the day. we see people who want to change their lives some have been working in their

profession for 15 or 20 years and now want to change course. they spent 3 months with us doing intensive training and so they can work in an entirely new field. the need for many more digital professionals did not start with the pandemic but it has made it greater. the problem we are addressing on a small scale with our book cams is the lack of qualified personnel there are 124000 i.t.v. concedes in germany right now on average it takes 150 days to fill a vacancy so there clearly aren't enough qualified. digital publishing is one industry in need of more people. are publishers magazines while the print runs of its paper editions have been falling for years it's online presence has been growing fast it's online publications now account for

a 3rd of its revenues. to work on the future viability of a company all the time and that involves finding qualified staff we have an arrangement with. we can contact its recent graduates at an early stage so we can recruit good candidates for digital business. export driven manufacturing base is taking a battering because of the coronavirus crisis while digital developments are not to speak. the digital. groups and make. digital technologies play a key role in just about every sector of the economy nowadays there's no way around the need to people's digital skill sets. i love working from.

work my back is. computer isn't as good as in the office the snacks are good. messages at all times of the day and night you can get a little too much time. out. that's working from home for you it was all too much sometimes for you 2 e-mails phone call select skype what is a. chat call. and you're expected to be available $24.00 seventh's would you react immediately to messengers of the form calls. was somehow managing to do some actual i'm. sorry but i can't talk to you right now i'm shooting a video. how

can we get through this jungle without going crazy. i've got a few tips for you. define when you want to do something and for a long if possible plan ahead when you want to do certain tests and how much time you'll need that way you can focus better on the task at hand. interruptions and b you have a typically killers research has shown that it can take an average of 23 minutes to get back into a subject after you've been distracted which brings me to my next point to. set priorities when someone contacts you. whether you have to other right away or if it can wait someone we should. be told we should put that.

on the other hand though when their hooves start to do their we're starting her own forward progress in our words which might detract from the part of some kind of always wearing those 3 legs obviously there are sometimes matters so urgent that they need to be resolved immediately. i'm shooting a video but i'm going. no you back in the want to are ok but if they are not just palm them and focus on your current task. choose the chair no communication you for the most comfortable with what would you prefer writing or speaking i know it's not up to you to dictate the means of communication. other. i've read some fascinating articles about how these tools are more difficult for women than for men. in part because

a lightning strikes was the basis for giving the media so for many of us leave my type stroke a lot better we might say no i want to do things right in the hour my slack her some other simple. answer some of those we're remembering to some calls because immediately takes the pressure off the video one white thing about the maids try to get out of as many mailing list as you can we spend 2 to 3 hours every day checking our maids wouldn't it be great if we could get down hundreds to. take breaks nothing new about that. but seriously take a time out. that's imperative for your health and productivity just legged on the steps cutting off tough.

time for us to close off i'm been physical and see that's what.

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