BI: How would you describe your most significant achievement as a scholar?
LG: That (question is) hard. You know why it's hard? One of the things my mother always tells me — in some ways, my mother helped me get through 1993 because she always told me (not to) internalize criticism. But it wasn't just that she told me not to internalize criticism, she gave me a lot of criticism so I was practiced in the art of handling the criticism and really taking it seriously.
The thing that she always hates about articles that focus on me is she thinks they're too focused on me. So (in answer to) this question of what I have accomplished? Well, nothing really in the sense that I alone have done nothing. I can't do anything alone. It's about connecting to other people, and inspiring my students, mentoring my students, engaging with them in a critique in which they often push me to think differently.
So, I would say my biggest accomplishment is being able to collaborate with others and learn from them, and not to be afraid of making mistakes.
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