Just attended a coaching on "Making Good Decisions" for academics. After 60min of "don't be too perfectionist", "just think about the next step", "be more compassionate with yourself", we started discussing where all this pressure is coming from, and someone asked "isn't the whole system broken, then?" and I asked "should we actually stop trying to fix our mental health and BURN THE WHOLE F**KING PLACE DOWN?" and the coach went: "Of course, that would actually be healthier". 🤡
@SemAntiKast@academicchatter This has been my attitude for a while now and I did a podcast on it a couple of years ago. Instead of providing employees with courses to help their mental health and instead of suggesting that people do things for their mental health, just treat them properly so their mental health doesn't get worse! In any other area of health, the advice would be to stop the thing that is causing the problem, not just try to negate the effects.
@SemAntiKast@academicchatter
Texas A&M just terminated their head football coach and will be paying out his remaining contract to the tune of 76 million dollars. Presumably, they will hire a new coach for a similarly outrageous sum. Think of how many professor salaries that could provide. How many scholarships. How many textbooks. There are entire institutions that survive on less than that.
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