Are You Stressed About Your Research Career?

The tournament in the acts was kind of my way of trying to think about this kind of status anxiety that we all have as researchers. And a lot of it comes from the structure of the research career, right? Every single step that you go through in the career, you're pitted against other people who are very smart and who are also motivated. So i think the combination of them kind of leads to a lot of anxiety. I don't see even if one of us had a magic wand that we could change the structure of how things work. But we can think about how we manage it. One is just to accept that no matter how smart you are, there's always going to be