Category: Inside Academia

A look behind the academic curtain — exploring the culture of research, teaching, and learning from the inside out. I’ll write about motivation, burnout, purpose, and the human aspects of working in science.

  • The culture of overwork —why ‘just push harder’ doesn’t work

    The culture of overwork —why ‘just push harder’ doesn’t work

    Because it simply does not. Do you remember a day when you woke up, went to work, tried to do the tasks planned for that day, but you simply couldn’t? Because all you wanted was to stay in bed for the rest of the day. You’d had enough. I remember well not one, but many…