Ep 3:5 Perfection Is Not Possible

Ep 3:5 Perfection Is Not Possible

It’s The Great Resignation, and people are departing their shitty jobs in droves. This includes academics, and not just adjuncts. Tenured and tenure track faculty are proactively departing to a degree never before seen. (Find many of them on the Professor Is Out private FB group!) Karen and Kel talk about ways that perfectionism–always the bugbear of academia–can hamper your transition out of the academy just as much as it might hamper your process of finishing that paper, dissertation, or book project. It’s all kind of the same thing: you feel like you have to know EXACTLY where you’re going and EXACTLY what you have to do, before you take a step. But, you don’t. You only need to take the first step. And that first step may well feel like a “misstep” but that is not a mistake, it’s just more information! Opening yourself to process – through Kel’s method of always asking, “….and…?” relieves you from the outcome-centrism of academic thinking, and frees you to move forward.

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3.29: How to Keep Going When You Don't Feel Like It

3.29: How to Keep Going When You Don't Feel Like It

We continue with vintage – yet evergreen – recordings. It seems like everyone struggles with the desire to quit at times. It’s a natural response to external forces, but you can summon internal forces...

9 Elo 202237min

Ep 3:27 #LeavingAcademia: The Great Quitting

Ep 3:27 #LeavingAcademia: The Great Quitting

Academics are bailing in unprecedented numbers, and academia has finally started to notice. Karen was interviewed twice in the past couple weeks–once in Nature, once in the Chronicle — about mass resi...

20 Kesä 202234min

Ep 3:26 Overcoming Perfectionism

Ep 3:26 Overcoming Perfectionism

Perfection is the enemy of productivity, but almost all academics struggle with perfectionism. How to resist its siren song? Kel shares her coaching insights from her Unstuck: The Art of Productivity ...

13 Kesä 202246min

Episode 3:25 Burnout Part II - Academia Has It Bad

Episode 3:25 Burnout Part II - Academia Has It Bad

One episode wasn’t enough to talk about burnout in the academy. Juxtaposing the WHO definition of burnout with a definition Karen read, that burnout is “investing emotionally in a job and not having t...

8 Kesä 202240min

Ep 3:24 Academic Burnout: What It Is, Where It Comes From

Ep 3:24 Academic Burnout: What It Is, Where It Comes From

Burnout is on everyone’s mind right now. It’s the end of the academic year, and what an academic year it was.  Profs and students both are at the end of their ropes. Kel and Karen talk about the sympt...

12 Touko 202239min

Ep 3:23 Prepping for Next Year's Job Market

Ep 3:23 Prepping for Next Year's Job Market

You didn’t get the job this year; what to do?  Kel and I talk through what makes a competitive record and competitive presentation of that record, so you can know what to prioritize this summer, if an...

6 Touko 202241min

Ep 2:22 The Violence of Professionalism

Ep 2:22 The Violence of Professionalism

We dig into the definition of  “professionalism,” a term thrown around as an arbiter of correct and incorrect behavior in academia.  Drawing from insights on a recent Twitter thread, Karen and Kel tal...

27 Huhti 202235min

Ep 3:21 Surviving Your New Academic Thing

Ep 3:21 Surviving Your New Academic Thing

We did a survey recently and the message loud and clear was: please give us more advice about just… surviving in academia!  So today we are talking about managing your transition into your new academi...

22 Huhti 202242min

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