Waverly Deutsch

standpoint, salary, title, right? Career potential, use of our talent. All of those are based on societal judgment factors that are all driven by society, peer, upbringing, community. So I 100% agree with you on the incredible importance of other people. Humans are a social animal. I might disagree with you on that it hits the heart and not the head. I think it defines a lot of both.

standpoint, salary, title, right? Career potential, use of our talent. All of those are based on societal judgment factors that are all driven by society, peer, upbringing, community. So I 100% agree with you on the incredible importance of other people. Humans are a social animal. I might disagree with you on that it hits the heart and not the head. I think it defines a lot of both.

That being said, for me, one of the things that I think gave me the kind of resilience that I've had in my career and my life is the fact that I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian household. And I had to separate from my community, the community that I grew up with, the people that I grew up with.

That being said, for me, one of the things that I think gave me the kind of resilience that I've had in my career and my life is the fact that I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian household. And I had to separate from my community, the community that I grew up with, the people that I grew up with.

I had to accept myself as nonconforming with what I had been taught as a kid was right, normal, appropriate, right. In fact, made into a life or death decision. And by doing that, by having as a very young person, a young teen and a teen, having to give up community, give up, even give up family for a while, it made me more resistant to... heavy influenced by outside community forces.

I had to accept myself as nonconforming with what I had been taught as a kid was right, normal, appropriate, right. In fact, made into a life or death decision. And by doing that, by having as a very young person, a young teen and a teen, having to give up community, give up, even give up family for a while, it made me more resistant to... heavy influenced by outside community forces.

It made me more able to listen to myself, my own values, my ethics system, my moral system, and be less judgmental about things like my career. To be able to leave a career in which I was experiencing some success and make a huge change where I had to go back to the beginning again, not something that was supported by my

It made me more able to listen to myself, my own values, my ethics system, my moral system, and be less judgmental about things like my career. To be able to leave a career in which I was experiencing some success and make a huge change where I had to go back to the beginning again, not something that was supported by my

graduate school friends, the people who knew me as an academic and as a thought leader in a particular field. And I think that having to lose a community and having to rebuild the community gave me a sense of not a complete inoculation to what other people think about what I'm doing, but much less strength in that particular pressure on me and my life.

graduate school friends, the people who knew me as an academic and as a thought leader in a particular field. And I think that having to lose a community and having to rebuild the community gave me a sense of not a complete inoculation to what other people think about what I'm doing, but much less strength in that particular pressure on me and my life.