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Work life balance: it is OK to work hard
Do you ever get the feeling your career is some kind of race and others view your hard work as sneaking into a car in the middle of a marathon? Do you feel better about taking time off if you … Continue reading
Why I didn’t answer your email
Do you know that personality characterization called OCEAN, openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism? It is supposedly much more supported by research than the simple extraversion-introversion espoused by that Quiet book, and is not as random as the Myers Briggs … Continue reading
Posted in Managing an academic career, Organization of a scientist, Social interactions
Tagged Agreeableness, Big Five personality traits, communication, Conscientiousness, email, Extraversion and introversion, Myers Briggs, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Neuroticism, Personality test, professors, tasks
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Great irresponsibility, or great organization?
Sometimes it is easier to just do whatever tasks stream at you through the incessant flow of email than to work on the conceptually difficult, important, long term research papers. At other times you want to scream and throw things … Continue reading
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