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I Finally Understood Why So Many PhDs Feel Like They’re Failing
What drives me bonkers about our culture is that we do not encourage people to struggle in a healthy way.
We don’t encourage people to sit with failure.
We don’t encourage people to dwell in negative outcomes and actually learn from them.
Instead, the only message that seems to exist everywhere is that success is the only thing that matters. And not just being okay. Not just doing reasonably well. The bar has shifted so far that unless you’re in the top tiny fraction of humanity, you feel like a screw-up.
When I was younger, the goal felt different. It was simple.
“I just want to do as well…
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