{PhD} Radical alternative ways of approaching productivity in the PhD
If you’re struggling to work the way you think you should be working in your PhD, here are a few radical, different ways of thinking about research productivity and PhD success.
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{PhD} 10 ways to beat writer’s block in the PhD
Don’t resist writer’s block in your PhD. Work with it. Here are 10 of my favourite things to do to bust, shimmy and skip through the stuckness.
blog | Ease | Messy thoughts | Sovereignty
Fuck productivity
Sure, it feels good to get shit done, but also, how fucking exhausting is this productivity malarky?
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You ≠ your fuck-ups
Instead of letting perfection define how you move, how can you get CURIOUS about it and let it move you forward?
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{PhD} The PhD can be challenging AND joyful
Challenges/difficulties AND invigorating, stimulating, joyful fulfilment in the PhD process are not two mutually exclusively things.
{PhD} Who are you in your PhD?
It becomes easy for us to conflate our whole sense of self with our PhD and our research. But we’re SO MUCH MORE than our PhDs…
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Why I keep telling you to do nothing
Here’s why I’m always trying to get you further and further away from the things we’ve been told to do our whole lives (hustle! grind! accomplish! progress!)
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Humans are the only animals that willfully deny ourselves rest
If the thought of just laying down and having a nap in the sun in the middle of the day horrifies you, please read this blog.
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You don’t need to know the whole perfect plan
You don’t need to know 398 steps ahead. You just need to know the next small first step.
blog | Ease | PhD thoughts | You-niverse
{PhD} A handful of weekend “permission slips”
Yes, yes, yes – you are allowed to curate your PhD experience the way you want and need it to be