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About anticipating failure

by Anissa Kempf

Tonight I had a precious phone call. I didn’t expect this person to call me. And even less what she asked me. She wondered what I was doing in my life. Strange phone call I thought. She wondered what would be the next step. And then I told her that I didn’t really plan anything yet. I told her that I wanted to do something completely different, something secure, something that would catch me up if I may fail in science. And I told her what I planned to do. And she asked me: “Are you serious? Do you want to get completely bored? Do you know what your job in this kind of job would be?” And I told her that it might still be interesting and that you don’t work twelve hours a day. And this person made me aware of the fact that I was planning my future professional choices according to some potential failure of something I haven’t even started yet. Nobody made me aware of that before. Even though it’s obvious, I know. Choosing the right strategy is not anticipating failure. It’s so obvious but it’s sometimes so difficult to stop over analyzing.

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