Season 3 Episode 7: Cynicism

Recovering Academic

Drought Crack Life Survival Flower Desert

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