2/ If you want a {#phdlife, #postdoclife, #gradlife, #proflife} heuristic for intellectual maturation, use your reaction to other people making the same arguments you'd make or like to make as a guide.
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(This is kinda inspired by
@LilyMasonPhD's Uncivil Agreement, which my committee member@jennifernvictor sagely insisted I read as part of her reaction to some of my dissertation's implications. Reading it now, I realized I'm mostly just smiling and saying, "oh, yes, good!")Show this thread
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I always try to see it as independent confirmation of, at least, the validity of my hypothesis, if not always its soundness. It also means I’m in dialogue with others on the subject, and without that I’m not doing anything at all.
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Yes, that part is pretty great. (So is the profitable dialog between well-researched and argued thoughts that you hate or disagree with.)
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Sometimes it can sting tho. Way back at end of undergrad I was considering grad school &dept head wanted to know what i was interested in researching. Gave him a (ppt? hypercard?) proposal.. he said "that's not real research." 25 yrs later univ has an INSTITUTE in that EXACT area
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Ugh, I'm sorry! That's a different variety of ugly :(
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Emphasis on the implementation. Or, even foraging. Tiny brains, short lives, great big complex systems.
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