advice

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• SOURCE: Business Insider
  7/14/19
  

  Robert Caro has a crucial piece of advice on interviewing: 'Shut up!'

  "Interviews: silence is the weapon, silence and people's need to fill it — as long as the person isn't you, the interviewer," Caro writes.

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• 8-19-13
  

  To Students Seeking the PhD in History

  by Vaughn Davis Bornet

  When at my advanced age one turns nostalgic it is time to beware. “Never look back” is an appropriate motto for the aged. It is an utterly inappropriate slogan for any historian to live with. In any case, I’m about to peer back at aspects of the profession of historian as I have observed it for over three quarters of a century.