Are you overworking as an academic?

I recently inventoried everything I was committed to doing and asked myself the following questions:

  • Am I contractually obliged to do this?
  • Has someone in a position of seniority directly asked me to do this?
  • Do I care deeply about this? Does it excite me?
  • Will I be letting a close colleague or friend down if I don’t do this?

It was surprising how many things I was doing for which the answer to this was ‘no’ 🤔

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