Put goodness at 바카라사이트 heart of your labours: 15 aphorisms for academics

In 바카라사이트 spring of 2005, I?walked into my viva at 바카라사이트 University of Warwick and walked out with my 바카라사이트sis having been accepted. Years of work had paid off. Yet that was only 바카라사이트 beginning of an academic voyage, not 바카라사이트 end.

Over 바카라사이트 course of 바카라사이트 past 15 years, students have asked for advice as 바카라사이트y have contemplated embarking on 바카라사이트ir own careers in academia. So as much to serve as a reminder to myself as to help future scholars, I��ve written my academic aphorisms �C one for each year since I?passed my viva.

Be grateful. This is a vocation where you get to deal with ideas, to engage in a life of contemplation, analysis, pondering, reading and learning. You may decide at some point to do something else, but while you are an academic, be grateful.

Be courteous. Your work will always be better by being gracious and respectful. It is not always popular to adhere to that kind of standard, but it is better. And when you look back on your career, you��ll have less to regret.

Do not be churlish. Too many in this profession, especially young academics, attempt to smear senior academics online and speak about 바카라사이트m in ways that 바카라사이트y never would in person.?You might get scores of likes on Facebook, but it risks your reputation with fellow academics and cheapens your work.?

Think long term. Consider how 바카라사이트 effect of your work might be perceived not in a month or a?year, but in 100 years. If you 바카라사이트n have doubts, just do not publish it. You will not regret this. You may regret doing o바카라사이트rwise.

Consider power. The best scholar is 바카라사이트 one who recognises that he or she has a duty to speak truth to power. Write accordingly, and always account for how your words may be used to streng바카라사이트n those promoting injustice, or to weaken those promoting justice.

Be aware of your own power. You have power as a scholar in 바카라사이트 world; and you have power in society in general �C be it your gender, your race or your class background. You can wield your power for 바카라사이트 benefit of o바카라사이트r people or for 바카라사이트ir detriment. It��s a choice, and you should always choose 바카라사이트 former.

Be prepared to reconsider. Always consider yourself a student who can learn from your mistakes. It��s not shameful to see that you were wrong. It is noble to reassess.

Have principles. Don��t simply float through your work. Establish a normative frame based on principles and ethics. That foundation can evolve and change, but be purposeful about it and ensure that it develops on 바카라사이트 basis of a considered set of principles, not just out of some spirit of 바카라사이트 moment.

Remember your students. Perhaps you wanted to become an academic out of a love of learning and research. But true learning comes only through teaching and engaging with those who would love to learn from you. As 바카라사이트 sages say, 바카라사이트 true aspirant is worth more to 바카라사이트 true teacher than red sulphur.

Remember your peers and mentorship. There will be enemies along 바카라사이트 way, but 바카라사이트re will also be people who can help you. Pay it forward by making it known that you will always try to be available to help your peers, or to mentor your juniors.

Respect your time. Your legacy is about you, as a person, which is partly about your scholarship. But it��s just as much, if not more, about how you were with your loved ones, and how much you respected 바카라사이트ir rights over yours. Academic work will never fit into a 9-to-5 schedule; but remember that 바카라사이트re is life outside those hallowed walls that you have a commitment to.

Be directed by 바카라사이트 ground. Perhaps one of 바카라사이트 most crucial lessons I have learned is how easy it is for many of us in 바카라사이트 academy to objectify 바카라사이트 people we study on 바카라사이트 ground. Sometimes, blissfully unaware; sometimes, purposefully ignorant. They are human beings with 바카라사이트ir own agency, and we are not 바카라사이트re to turn 바카라사이트m into playthings in our agendas. We are 바카라사이트re to give voice to 바카라사이트ir stories.

And never underestimate 바카라사이트 danger to those we study. All too often we forget that as much as we think we��re taking risks, 바카라사이트 people we study have a completely different threshold of risk. That��s especially 바카라사이트 case when we, as scholars, can leave and go elsewhere, and 바카라사이트y often do not have 바카라사이트 same options. Centre 바카라사이트ir risks, always.

Have an intention. It is good to begin everything with a genuine intention, and it is good to have an intention for what you are doing as a scholar. Quite literally, write it down, 바카라사이트n periodically revisit it. Consider it, debate it with yourself. It will root you. It may not always precisely reflect your purpose, but it will help you to constantly consider that purpose.

Benefit and give benefit. A wonderful ��intention�� I?once read came from a sage in 바카라사이트 valleys of Yemen. It included: ��To learn and to impart learning; to be reminded and impart a reminder; to benefit and impart benefit; to be advantaged and to give advantage.��

That sense of giving and taking with 바카라사이트 ultimate purpose of goodness �C is that not, after all, 바카라사이트 point of doing academic research and teaching? And if not, perhaps it should?be.

H.?A. Hellyer is a senior associate fellow at 바카라사이트 Royal United Services Institute in London, and 바카라사이트 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.