Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Just chip away”.
Anne SLINN, I left campus actually almost two years ago, so I got a jump start on this remote working, stuff., [, MUSIC PLAYING ] TOM GEARTY. Can you tell us what prompted the move out to the west coast, ANNE SLINN? I wanted to join my father in a very remote location as he’s elderly and thought it would be a good time to do it before there was a crisis.. I didn’t foresee this kind of crisis coming and I thank my lucky stars that I made the move when I did. And out here. I have a lot of land and I have animals and it’s just –. It’S a wonderful escape., [, MUSIC PLAYING ] TOM GEARTY. We’Re all getting used to physical distancing. You’ve got two years of it under your belt.. What guidance do you have for? Those of us who’ve just started to physically distance ANNE SLINN. So a lot of my work, as my colleagues know, is done in the middle of the night.. They wondered if there was something up with the time zone change because the emails they got from me are in the middle of the night.. But for me it just worked that way, because I wanted to be outside during the day just trying to balance the time management of it.. I would say that I was somewhat struggling for a good year..
How do I balance work and play and family and responsibilities? That’S the million dollar question. Isn’T it A favorite story of mine? Is I asked Chuck Vest former president of MIT how he managed to do all I did because I was just a big fan of his. And one day I asked him. And his answer always rings in my ears.
Every time I feel overwhelmed. And he said “, Just chip away. Just do what you can and try and set your own priorities.. Just chip, away.” TOM GEARTY, Ask a question again and just take another crack at it to see.
If we can, you know, come at it from a different angle., ANNE SLINN Or if my daughter runs in the room, TOM GEARTY, [, INAUDIBLE, ] Exactly.. We don’t know, what’s going to happen. Really. [, MUSIC PLAYING ] .