If only more people realized this:
But it’s really important for me to learn how to love myself again, not just because it’s a basis of good psychological health; I’m planning on becoming an academic. How can I be a successful academic if I don’t like myself? Part of that career involves spending a LOT of time alone with myself researching, writing, and editing. That’s a recipe for failure if you’re disturbed by your own company and want to smother it by going out to socialize.
There are so many people literally unraveling and driving everybody around them up a wall who need to get this.
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There’s that, and then there is my reaction to this problem — becoming an academic agoraphobic, refusing to come out of hiding.
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Ah, but then you go out and play the Glass Bead Game with other academics.
What, you don’t?
Well, you should start. 🙂
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Unfortunately, this and other games are unavoidable.
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I love the quote. Is it yours? Source?
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The link is at the beginning of the quote.
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How can I be a successful academic if I don’t like my sel….cell phone?
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Last year, I’ve decided to not continue my Ph. D. unless some conditions are respected because I deserve them. I don’t this those condition will occur so…
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Last year, I’ve decided to not continue my Ph. D. unless some conditions are respected because I deserve them. I don’t think those conditions will occur, so…
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Oops, I entered my e-mail wrong.
Speaking of academia.
http://jpohl.blogspot.com/2014/07/new-publication-on-blacks-in-ussr-out.html
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Sounds fascinating!
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