To Survive Academia, You Have to Dissociate Every Day a Little Bit

R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness · Apr 7, 2025 · 9m

The more that I understand how the sausage is made, the more disillusioned I get with it. I used to have this sort of envisioned idea that if I simply just worked and I did a good job, I treated people nicely, I did everything that I was supposed to do, that it would work out. That was very naive. It’s often not what you thought it would be. The process is not what you think it is.

There is more to the story. There’s a tremendous amount of loneliness. You could be a very nice, well-intentioned person, trying to do your best—but it very often will not work out for you. There is very little…