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Manuscripts of doom
Feb. 3rd, 2016 11:09 amWouldn't it be nice if demanding a revised draft of a manuscript NOW resulted in such a thing?
Sigh.
Instead it seems to just push me over the edge of the stress-performance inverted U-function.
To some degree, this has to do with how I process feedback from other people. It's an instinct to drag my heels and fight because I *know* that I know the literature way better than coauthors and am trying to think it through on a deeper level than they are. I refuse to turn in embarrassing and shoddy work. And I know this is to my detriment at a certain point, but I've also observed firsthand that turning in stuff that's half-baked is seriously embarrassing and an even larger waste of everyone's time.
Sigh.
Instead it seems to just push me over the edge of the stress-performance inverted U-function.
To some degree, this has to do with how I process feedback from other people. It's an instinct to drag my heels and fight because I *know* that I know the literature way better than coauthors and am trying to think it through on a deeper level than they are. I refuse to turn in embarrassing and shoddy work. And I know this is to my detriment at a certain point, but I've also observed firsthand that turning in stuff that's half-baked is seriously embarrassing and an even larger waste of everyone's time.
