That seems fair, but given your experience I hopefully don’t need to rely on this form of blessing :)
Imagine a counterfactual version of your past self which did have the willpower to focus on one project at a time (but the willingness not to if required); could you give him advice which could counteract this disadvantage in disguise? Or do you think it is a matter of luck that this turned out to be a good thing?
Well, for one, I’d tell him that his future self that dropped out of the PhD is doing just fine, so there’s no use spending years on it, even if it seems oh so important at the moment :-)
That seems fair, but given your experience I hopefully don’t need to rely on this form of blessing :)
Imagine a counterfactual version of your past self which did have the willpower to focus on one project at a time (but the willingness not to if required); could you give him advice which could counteract this disadvantage in disguise? Or do you think it is a matter of luck that this turned out to be a good thing?
Well, for one, I’d tell him that his future self that dropped out of the PhD is doing just fine, so there’s no use spending years on it, even if it seems oh so important at the moment :-)