The taboo of failure

We celebrate a lot of exciting things. You get into your dream school? Let’s party! Getting married? Time to celebrate! Win the big game? Well you get the point. As a culture, here in the US anyway, we celebrate victories and make fun of people who try to include the people who lose. If you’ve never seen the “participation trophy” discourse then it’s probably better to live in ignorance, trust me on that. In short, we celebrate the winners because they accomplished something and if you failed then clearly you did not.

October 18, 2022 | Categories: 365 Days of Academia - Year four, Dissertation Work | Tags: academia, college, dissertation, Education, goal setting, life, Mental health, PhD, reseearch, science, student, writing | 4 Comments