认识我的价值

I lay in the emergency department, suddenly blind. As a motor-learning scientist, I knew it was not a good sign. In that hospital bed holding my newborn daughter in my arms, I learned I had multiple sclerosis (MS). My vision came back, but the timeline of my disease was sobering: My odds were good until age 55, but after that no one could say. Suddenly, just 4 years in to leading my academic research group, I faced the prospect of losing not just the intellectual reward of working as a senior academic, but also many of my top earning years. …