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Naturally, I regularly receive mails from my readers on some of the issues I write about. Lately, however, I have read several mails inquiring about the vocation of an academic.
A number of my readers, want to know what it takes to be an academic, and how to be a successful researcher. I take these inquiries with humility, noting that while I am an academic, I do not consider myself to have reached the acme of academia.
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