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Most people probably know the Boy Scouts of America has the motto “Be Prepared”. As an Eagle Scout, I obviously embraced this concept and have made numerous successful professional steps that can be partially credited to this motto. It is similar to another saying I like, “I’d rather have it and not need it than
I acquired Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation by Saundra Yancy McGuire in a burst of purchasing designed to improve my own pedagogical approach. It was recommended to me by someone I feel is a good educator, and then it sat
Oh man, do I really need to write this post? I do, but not for the reason you may think. Yes, there are people who lie, and we will deal with that. The bigger problem is that, in our culture, honesty is a fluid concept with many different definitions. So let’s break them down. Brutal
I occasionally do locum work at different universities. Locum is short for locum tenens, a Latin term describing temp work for doctors. I assume they don’t call it “temp work” because doctors would rather be called “locums” rather than “temps”. In any event, I am usually on call the entire time, and during my last
When I was in high school, I was part of a gaming group that included one guy who was arrogant as the day is long. He thought he was the best thing since sliced bread. Yes, he was intelligent, but he wasn’t attractive or likable, and I couldn’t stand him. He never treated people as
I was interviewing at a university recently and someone brought up the study we did looking at internship letters of intent. They said, “Aren’t you just telling them how to write a good letter? Won’t it be formulaic? There won’t be any difference between candidates. They can just read the study and ape what others
At one institution where I worked, gossip was the game of the day, every day. The staff gossiped with the faculty who gossiped with each other. It was largely because the flow of information was terrible- there was no communication from senior leadership, so everyone speculated on what was going on. It created an unpleasant
Do you know or work with someone who is negative? What, exactly, makes them negative? The description from a Podcast a Vet episode with Dr. Krull comes to mind, “Come in pretty grumpy, pissed that I either had a client, pissed I didn’t have a client. I don’t wanna see that client, there was a
I started reading a blog called Mr. Money Mustache in 2018. To say it changed my life is an understatement, but one of the things I like most about it is his near-compulsive optimism. It’s inspiring, it’s infectious, and it’s clearly led him to success. Once I started to think about it and look around,
I have a hard time understanding people who have no motivation to do anything meaningful. I understand lacking motivation sometimes. I have an email in my inbox right now about a research paper I’ve been working on for years. One of my collaborators reviewed it and suggested a ton of (very constructive) changes. But now