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Professor David Maslach talks about graduate school, research, science, Innovation, and entrepreneurship. The R3ciprocity project is my way to give back as much as I possibly can.
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Why No One Listens… Until You’ve Been Doing It for 10 Years (opens the original)
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What’s funny is… my message hasn’t changed. People just started listening because I got older. I’ve been saying the same thing for over a decade. When I started, no one cared. It was dismissed. Ignored. Called a waste of time. People told me—directly and indirectly— that what I was doing didn’t make sense. And if I’m honest… they were right. At least in the short term. ⸻ Because anything that actually matters… looks like a mistake while you’re doing it. It looks: • inefficient • inappropriate •
Why Do I Feel So Stressed Right Now? (It Happens Every Year) (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking a lot about stress lately, and I don’t think it’s as personal as we make it. I think it comes in cycles. Every year, there are periods where stress ramps up, and it’s not random. It’s tied to how we’ve structured time. Over time, we’ve become more and more synchronized. We used to live with loose time. Clocks were off. Schedules were imperfect. Now everything is precise. Our phones, our computers, our calendars… all synced to the same clock. And because of that, we’re all movi
Why Your PhD Feels So Hard (Even If You’re Smart) (opens the original)
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Most PhD students think success is about intelligence, productivity, or discipline. It’s not. It’s about your relationship with yourself. Three versions of you are always in conflict: • your past self • your present self • your future self And most PhD students lose because they never learn how to manage that. ⸻ Let’s start with your past self. You were trained to believe: • work harder • get the right answer • move fast That worked. Until now. Because a PhD forces you to confront something unco
Why Do Professors Feel So Burned Out and Isolated? (opens the original)
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I have felt strangely happy at the end of the day lately. That has not been normal for me. Most days, by the end of work, I feel worn down. Grumpy. Flat. A little miserable. I am a business professor. I spend a lot of time working alone. And that, I think, is the real issue. Not the work itself. The isolation. A lot of academic work is done this way. You disappear into your office. You write alone. You think alone. You struggle alone. Then you briefly reappear in a meeting or an email. And we ac
If Success Feels Hard and Repetitive… You’re Doing It Right (opens the original)
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Success is almost the opposite of what you think it is. We’ve all been sold the same idea. There’s a shortcut. A trick. A moment where it all clicks. One decision. One breakthrough. One big move. And suddenly… you’ve made it. But that’s not how it works. Not even close. Real success is slow. Painful. And honestly… kind of boring. It looks like this: Doing the same thing again. And again. And again. Breaking things into tiny pieces. Fixing one small mistake at a time. Repeating it thousands of ti
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