How to Stay Sane and Healthy in Academia - Defining Your Own Standards of Success

As an academic, you are always being judged. You are judged in exams and vivas. Your work and attitude are judged by supervisors and colleagues. You are judged in peer-review. Your funding applications are judged. Your right to continuing employment is judged by a tenure committee.

So much of how your career goes depends on these judgments. But if you let your life depend on it too, prepare to enter a world of suffering and pain (perhaps you already know this world).

If you let the judgments of others dictate how your life is going and how you feel about your life, the academic career becomes very hard.

If you want to stay sane and healthy in academia, you need to find your own standards and criteria for success. You need to be able to independently judge when things are going well and when you are doing good work.

And that's exactly what you'll learn to do in this workshop.