In this episode, the final one we record on the Himalaya platform (the podcast will continue, just on a different platform – follow our social media for links) we talk about the need for a hard reset in the face of the devastating Fall increase in covid infections and the further collapse of the academic career. A hard reset means on one hand, remembering the good systems you might have put in place last March to deal with the pandemic, and bringing them back. On the other hand, recalibrate your relationship to the academy, so that no matter whether you stay or leave, you are operating autonomously and without delusional beliefs in the academy’s “goodness” and academic exceptionalism. This starts a new series on concrete advice to leave the academy.
We continue with the three-part examination of getting stuck and unstuck. Last week we talked about the Island of Perfectionism. Today we talk the...
Continuing from Part I last week, Karen and Kel continue sharing 12 strategies for confronting disappointment in a healthy and productive way, targeted to...
Every winter, lots of folks have to confront the reality that they didn’t get the jobs (or grants or publication acceptances) that they’d been...