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Scholarship April 7, 2020

“Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure”

The Wabash Center

Author
Ahmad, Aisha S.
Publisher
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Now more than ever, we must abandon the performative and embrace the authentic. Our essential mental shifts require humility and patience. Focus on real internal change. These human transformations will be honest, raw, ugly, hopeful, frustrated, beautiful, and divine. And they will be slower than keener academics are used to. Be slow. Let this distract you. Let it change how you think and how you see the world. Because the world is our work. And so, may this tragedy tear down all our faulty assumptions and give us the courage of bold new ideas.