This is the Jocko Underground podcast number 165 sitting here with Echo Charles preparing to answer questions from the troopers of planet Earth.

Sure.

Planet Earth.

So we're ready.

Yeah, we're ready.

We're going to present some courses of actions, some thoughts.

And then we'll move forward.

Yeah, see how we can move forward.

Good.

Okay. First question. Hi, Jocco can move forward. Good. Okay, first question.

Hi, Jaco Aco.

I write to you to ask for advice on behalf of my girlfriend.

She's one of the most squared away and hardworking people I know,

wakes up early, works out, goes to the lab, works all day.

She's in the last phase of her Ph.D. program where her advisor, the person who runs the whole lab, is making life difficult.

For starters, he's rarely in the lab.

From what I can tell, he keeps students in the dark about their future.

For example, he hasn't reviewed the papers that my girlfriend submitted over a year ago.

There is minimal communication.

He'll meet with students occasionally where he yells at them

for not achieving the results he expected.

All of that would be tolerable except for he keeps pushing back her graduation every single semester.

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