Believe it or not, your entire academic career doesn’t really tell you much about yourself. It tells you only if you are good (or not) at school, which is fine if you want to spend the entire life in academia. But, it would have been far better if it could indicate whether or not are we going to be successful in making money or managing our failed relationships – if that matters. Here, 7 reasons to make you believe life turned out to be so different than what we were being trained for, all those years:

4. You were taught to be competitive and outrun others in every facet of your life.

And when you actually do that, get better at it and start living a successful career, your doctor asks you to have an easy take on your life. “Disconnect fully and disconnect often,” he says. “Slow down and recalibrate your life by connecting instead with friends and family.”