You might want to keep trying to rise, using a path that builds on your natural strengths: sales, analysis, managing people, whatever, and keep asking for honest feedback. When you reach the point at which it feels clear you've topped out, revise your job description or take a step back. Up is not the only way.

I believe that a core problem with undergraduate education, especially at research universities like Harvard, Stanford, NYU, etc, is that most teaching is done by PhDs, who by temperament, training, interests, and rewards are researchers first. So they spend most of their time and energy probing a snip of a field's cutting edge. In my view, the attributes needed to be a transformative undergraduate instructor are pretty orthogonal to that. It would seem that undergraduate education would be superior if there was a separate track for teaching faculty.

Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene.

We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.

Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.

What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones.

Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.