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I wasn’t raised to be a planner. There were no big events, like vacations or trips, to break up the weekly patterns. I saw friends daily in school or three times a week in religious meetings. There were a religious assemblies a couple of times a year in another
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What is it about achievements that are so important? The philosopher Gwen Bradford proposes that the value of an achievement isn’t in the final product, but in the difficulty we have to overcome to get there. It’s our will we’re praising, not its results. That seems right:
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I got my PhD in 2011, and, since then, I have formally used the title “Dr.” twice, both in the first few months after getting it. The first time, I was signing up for a magazine subscription, and when the website asked for a title, I decided that I had