https://livingwithscleroderma.com/busy-ness/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:16:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/busy-ness/#comment-1106 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:16:58 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=1456#comment-1106 That’s great, Pat. And you never know where these new interest will lead.

]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/busy-ness/#comment-1104 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:31:41 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=1456#comment-1104 Cutting back on the busyness becomes essential as we get older. I love the Dietrich quote about not confusing movement with action. This post comes just as I have been having an interesting email correspondence with another woman academic close to my age. We both made names for ourselves with particular kinds of work in our fields, and we both are getting tired of doing that kind of work and wanting to branch into new areas of study. These are areas that simply interest and attract us, without much professional gain in prospect, and we’ve both found that we meet resistance from colleagues when we try to go in those directions (not that this is stopping us!). There is tremendous pressure in the academy to re-play one’s “greatest hits” with a few more new verses. Trying something completely different is a good way to make less busyness more productive!

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