Future Chapters
I dwelt on this project for about one year, researching the works of pioneering developmental psychologists like Ainsworth, Pieget, and etc. I had many conversations with the father whom I had never met and even met him in my dream once.
After writing four chapters, I found it extremely difficult to write further and realized my emotional reservoir is completely empty. The second half of The Vault was especially taxing and I decided to focus on the less emotionally demanding novel Integers.
I’ll dive back into this emotional turbulent project once I find myself replenished.
The word dwell comes from the Old English verb dwellan, which originally meant "to lead into error, deceive, or delay"
Middle English (dwellen): Shifted meaning over time from delaying or procrastinating (late 12th century) to lingering or remaining (14th century), and finally to making a home or abiding (mid-14th century), partly influenced by Old Norse cognates like dvelja (to delay, tarry)
. "Emotional Buy-In" as an Antidote to Burnout
Counterintuitively, Mukherjee suggests that the best way for medical professionals to combat emotional draining and burnout is not by stepping back, but by delving even deeper into their work. He advocates for a deep emotional and intellectual buy-in to specific medical mysteries (like cell biology or metastasis), arguing that pursuing these peculiar niches keeps the "brain and soul alive" when institutional demands threaten to exhaust them
