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#58: When you're doing everything everywhere all at once

The Academic Imperfectionist

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The Importance of Accepting Brokenness

This is a familiar story, especially for academics who often end up far from where they grew up as they chase after their degrees and then their jobs. It's largely a result of a culture that insists that we should be able to get by alone without help. This goes beyond rejecting perfectionism. It's about accepting imperfection and outright damage as business as usual inevitable. Don't even try to keep all those plates spinning. Let them break. They're going to anyway.

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