Sync
How well your inner world matches your outer world. The alignment between what you feel, say, and do.
Carrie League and Giving Up the PhD
Sync measures how well your inner world matches your outer world. Carrie League's inner world — someone who wanted to go to concerts, try new things, and build something with Tim — was badly out of sync with her outer world, which was a competitive microbiology lab. The moment she named that gap clearly ('I was doomed') was the moment she started closing it. Leaving the program was sync in action: her choices finally matching who she actually was.