Venue, the Electric Slide, and Impostor Syndrome: thoughts on intellectual engagement & growth.

Welcome to Wednesday of Well-Being Week in Law.

Today’s topic is Intellectual Well-Being, with the mantra “Engage and Grow.”  We’re focusing on striving for continuous intellectual engagement and growth in our work and personal lives.

Here’s a video in which I go into more detail.  The video ranges from my personal (and borderline frivolous) engagement and growth – venue in federal criminal cases and mastering the Electric Slide – to a serious discussion of Impostor Syndrome.

I’d love to learn your thoughts & strategies for intellectual growth.  Please consider joining this Zoom discussion at noon to share & listen as others share theirs!

 Links to material referenced in my video are below:

Engage & Grow!

• An article in Elemental on the connection between curiosity and well-being.
• An article in Courthouse News about a 9^th Circuit opinion that involves an international arms dealer and proper venue in federal criminal cases.
• Joanna Litt’s letter to The American Lawyer about her husband’s suicide.
• Neha Sampat’s post in the ABA Journal calling on the profession to address Impostor Syndrome.

Related Posts:

• Wellness Wednesday: you are not an impostor
• Engage Intellectually, and you are not impostor