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Imagine a tennis ball dropped on cement – it immediately bounces back to your hand.
Now imagine dropping that same ball on a sandy beach.
The bounce of a tennis ball on pavement is a form of resilience, but it’s important to note that resilience is not just an inherent property of the ball.
Context matters just as much.
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How many times have you said “I wish I had known!” or “Why didn’t they teach us this in school?”
If you’re a graduate student, you’ve probably said it a lot.
For some reason, from the moment you write your first application to the moment you get your hood and mortarboard, you’ll be re-learning what thousands of students have learned before you.
You’ll be treading a well-worn path, but for some reason, you won’t get a map.
Why don’t successful graduates take the time to help their successors along? Well, partly because they immediately get busy on the next stage of their career.
And partly because they may feel they’ve barely escaped the gauntlet of graduate school intact. “What advice could I give?” they muse. “I almost didn’t make it myself!”
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This week, we dig into the mailbag to answer your questions!
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COVID-19 is a wildfire burning its way around the planet.
Its impacts are devastating to nearly every aspect of our modern lives: loved ones lost, economies destroyed, and plans put on hold indefinitely.
But like a fire, it’s also shedding light, illuminating the hidden corners of our society and our routines that we may not have taken the time to examine before.
When this fire eventually burns itself out, should we go back to living in the dark, or are there lessons we should learn? Are there torches we can carry beyond this trial to more permanently transform our work, our values, and our lives?
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It’s a well worn analogy, but an apt one: grad school is a mental and emotional marathon, not a sprint.
This week, we answer listener mail from ‘runners’ at different stages of the race!
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