When the system –of science and academia– forgets the scientist, it forgets that discovery itself depends on the vitality of the discoverer.

In this third reflection of the Occupational Well-Being and Harmony series, Part III: The Science and Academia Lens – When Discovery Forgets the Discoverer, we explore how the machinery of science and academia can forget the human discoverer. Through personal stories and honest questions, we examine burnout, loss of purpose and value, and the call to restore well-being, balance, and meaning within modern research culture.

We are not here for efficiency or production alone, but for experience, creation, and expression.

This second reflection in the Occupational Well-Being and Harmony series, Part Ii: The Living Rhythm Between Well-Being and Harmony, explores how our daily occupation rhythm shape both our inner and outer worlds – from well-being within what we do, to harmony between who we are and how we live. It also reflects on how the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped our awareness of rhythm, rest, and freedom across personal and occupational life.

We spend nearly one-third of our lives working, yet rarely pause to ask: Does the way I “work” align with the way I live?

This opening reflection of Occupational Well-Being and Harmony series, Part I: From Work to Occupation - The Human Rhythm, explores the meaning of “work” and the human rhythm beneath it: how “work” has shifted across time through history’s cycles of effort and restoration, how the term work–life balance has become outdated, and how we might instead shift toward personal and occupational wholeness.