"Are you mentally stable to do this research?"
While attending a course on legal pluralism in Lisbon in 2022, I had an interesting and unexpectedly reflective conversation with one of the organizers. We were discussing my research when he suddenly asked “Are you mentally stable to do this research? I apologize for being so blunt, but sometimes students and junior researchers are naïve. They think it is fun, but they do not realize the impact it could have on them.”