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Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure
Many of us have phases where we have no idea what we’re doing, or everything feels like it’s going wrong: that we are failing, or even that we are failures. Sometimes such phases feel less like phases than a permanent default. And often we assume – wrongly – that no one else ever feels the same. This is an initiative intended to help make it OK to think and talk about failure. It includes five podcasts and a workbook. Find out more about the contributors, download the workbook, and give feedback at http://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/overcoming-failure/.
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How to take action to change the role failure plays in your life. In this episode we provide practical guidance on concrete failure-related steps that start with you: from writing your CV of failures to finding a mentor (or a mentee) and making and testing out an alternative career plan. We...
Published 05/22/18
How to change your own attitudes to failure and success, and how failure relates to regret. This and the following episode offer more in-depth suggestions for how to put insights about failure into practice. Our contributors describe personal attitudes that may be helpful, like looking your...
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Why does the idea of leaving academia so often feel like professional failure? The mere idea of leaving academia can feel like the greatest failure of them all. But the academic world need not be an unquestioned given: there are many other things you can do, and they are not less meaningful than...
Published 05/22/18
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