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142. The right attention to the right things with Dr. Ginger Lockhart

Self-Compassionate Professor

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The Moral Dilemma of Pursuing a Career

"I wasn't doing this work out of deep-seated commitment and passion for producing knowledge, which is what it takes to do that job," he says. "It was just a big elaborate game." The university's business model has exacerbated the problem in his life, she writes. He adds: "The reason I did it was because I knew it would garner me a lot of attention ... It wasn't about curiosity and pursuing knowledge"

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