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2 Failure and Other People

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Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure
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Other people (or our idea of them) can induce feelings of failure and alleviate or transform them.
Failure can be a very lonely feeling, but it’s always shaped by other people, whether positively or negatively. Our contributors share reflections on how easy it is to let yourself be trapped by others’ expectations, how pernicious comparison can be, and how it helps to talk honestly about all this. We offer suggestions for how to build failure-related conversations into your everyday life, as part of breaking down the more harmful elements of the public/private distinction.

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Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure

1 The Feeling of Failure

What does failure feel like, and what happens when you sit with it?
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3 Failure and the Farewell to Academia.

Why does the idea of leaving academia so often feel like professional failure?
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Series
Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure
People
Susan Blackmore
Julia Bray
Chiara Cappellaro
Barbara Gabrys
Adam Hart-Davis
Jaz Hill-Valler
Leanne Hodson
Dan Holloway
Ritchie Robertson
Emily Troscianko
Chris Wickham
Keywords
academia
Careers
comparison
failure
rejection
social life
storytelling
success
Department: Careers Service
Date Added: 22/05/2018
Duration: 00:39:52

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