Dear reader, we are writing this piece as a collaborative collage based on our experience of our ongoing PhD journey in a "top" business school, on self-compassion and the inner saboteur, all saturated by the unpredictable developments of the COVID-19 pandemic. Contrary to the linear argumentation of academic writing, collage writing works by opening up "new possibilities for understanding" what is written (Herrmann, 2020, p. 298). This introduction is where we manage your expectations, by letting you know that what follows below does not replicate the structure or the form of a conventionally organized paper.

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