This is the third in my three-part series of podcasts with Dr. Krista Scott-Dixon. The first two podcasts focussed on Krista’s career transition from a women’s studies Ph.D. to a web editor, magazine editor and research director. This third and final podcast touches on some of the problems in academia that alienate people and make them want to leave. You might find yourself identifying with what Krista talks about, which includes:
- 1:45 – 5:45: Krista explains her accomplishments (like finishing her Ph.D. in four years) aren’t a result of being particularly exceptional, but are just a matter of showing up and doing the work–even when you suck at it.
- 5:45 – 8:45: What she learned from Gail Sheehy’s book Pathfinders
: that people who are successful were able to mobilize their life crises and turn them into learning experiences.
- 8:45 – 11:50: Academics are working under a Cartesian mind/body model. “We are here for our brains; our bodies are containers to carry our brains around.”
- 11:50 – 14:50: Do academics live in an ivory tower? Yes, says Krista, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have any social obligations.
- 14:50 – 18:30: Original ideas in academia are often disparaged in favour of critique but the vampiric drain of continual critique without creation makes it difficult to sustain yourself.
Listen to the 19-minute podcast here.
Related posts:
- Podcast #1: “There are places that would walk over their own mother to hire you.”
- Podcast #2: Hey! If you get tenure, you’ll feel this bad for 30 years!
- Podcast #7: “See what it feels like to wake up on Sunday morning and not have to grade papers.”
- Podcast #8: “I made the decision to leave because there were a lot of pieces that just didn’t fit together”
- Do women leave academia more frequently than men?
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