Ken Covinsky
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1,532 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2016
last heard Sep 2025
Ken Covinsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You really do have to make a decision about what you're going to do over the next period of time, next years.
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But you really can free yourself from deciding
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your whole life.
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Whether you're a researcher or a clinician or an educator, you really don't have to know what you're going to do forever.
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And in fact, sometimes the best ideas are unexpected.
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If you're a good investigator, one idea leads to the next one.
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That's a really good question.
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You know, I think mentees are people, I think, intellectual excitement.
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So a mentee who really, you know, brings like excitement and passion to their idea and really wants to make a difference.
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So that's
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I think there's in academics, there's often a lot of anxiety at the beginning of the career.
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How am I going to get my first job?
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How am I going to get funded?
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And that's all important.
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And part of the job of the mentor is to help them through that.
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But ultimately,
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you really have to be about the mission and not about the academic accolades, you know, because if you're about the mission, I think the academic piece often follows.
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So I really, I mean, I think it's intellectual excitement and, you know, somebody who just, you know, you're so busy and maybe, you know, it's one more meeting, but, you know, I think a lot of times with my mentees, those are the most fun meetings I had every day.
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And I think-
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I mean, it's interesting because I have a style in terms of...
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