Why I didn't pursue PhD
All my academic learning was continuous till MBA. After 10 years or so into corporate career, I started to have those feelings whether now is the time I should go for another education cycle with PhD. PhD is pretty intense degree, needs all your attention. Gives you an opportunity for deep learning. You get to be known as expert in the field(well most do). However it turned out that all these were the same reasons I didn't wanted to pursue it. Deep learning of one subject, one topic. Research get approved by defending it, that means one's ability to know and convenience about all that they know about their research topic. While deep learning is fulfilling, making that alone as your focus of your professional life(for rest of the life) needs a rigor, one of a kind. I didn't think I have that I could sustain that kind of rigor on one subject. Being expert is full time responsibility for all these doctors for rest of their lives. Considering pace of change that happ...