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Why achievement can create existential vacuum

I got tenure and suddenly I don't know what I'm working toward anymore since I spent 10 years just trying to survive academia.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Reaching long-term goals can precipitate identity crisis when survival-focused striving was the primary organizing principle of daily life.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Life transitions as identity events?”

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