The Importance of Letting Go

Tenured professors don't leave their jobs. That's like the golden ring. You're not getting it fired unless the whole college shuts down, which is a highly unlikely scenario and you've got a guaranteed paycheck for life. Letting go of that particular raft was really, really difficult. It meant potentially losing everything I had worked so hard to build. But then I remembered, you know, letting go can be an act of love. There's actually birth and death. As Joseph Campbell writes, the earth must be broken to bring forth life. So I let what was dying service fertilizer for what was coming alive.

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