How to avoid cynical feelings of feeling helpless.
“Always wear shorts under your skirt so you can go to the monkey bar” —@ladyscientist
Mentioned in this episode:
- Learned Helplessness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
- Grant rejection tweet: https://twitter.com/jeroenphv/status/1064579050134478848
- Brain pickings assay: https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/09/hope-cynicism/
- The Sunk Cost Fallacy: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2011/03/25/the-sunk-cost-fallacy/
- Blog Grumpy Rumblings (of the formerly untenured): https://nicoleandmaggie.wordpress.com/
- TV show Quantum Leap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Leap
- The Worst Songs Of All Time? https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2014/02/06/272457460/the-worst-songs-of-all-time
- Video of us dancing: https://twitter.com/IHStreet/status/1064729957249818625
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