If you had to relive a single day in your life, what would it be?
This was the question posed to me by our industrial-organizational psychology graduate students. (They had recently started a new tradition of quizzing their professors at the beginning of each class.) I told them that the day I’d like to relive was the birth of my daughter. “‘How sweet,’ you all must be thinking,” I told them. “‘She wants to cherish how special that moment was for her and her family.’ I could lie and say ‘Sure, yeah, that’s it.’ But the real reason I want to relive this day is because I’d like to be able to experience the joy of her birth. I didn’t enjoy it because I was a workaholic.”
Alex was born three years into my PhD program, ...
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