{PhD} What’s so hard about doing a PhD anyway?
An overview of five unique challenges of PhD life and some ways to face them with more grace, clarity, ease, joy
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Fuck ‘showing up’
Showing up in the best way possible starts with recognising what you need in order to do that ‘showing up’ with ease and pleasure
{PhD} What is ‘good enough’ for the PhD?
What the actual fuck does it mean to be ‘good enough’ in PhD or academia anyway?
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Fuck confidence
Respond from an unshakeable space of YOU, instead of others’ expectations and external imperatives to “just be confident”.
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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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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.
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Are you sick of being told to ‘be confident’?
Forcing confidence is counter-productive. Trying to be confident when you are most definitely not feeling it doesn’t erase or solve all the other yuck; it just intensifies it.
{PhD} The PhD is a strange thing
The PhD is a formless, undefinable, unpredictable, ever-changing, multi-faceted thing – this is why it’s all the more important to get super clear about YOUR intentions, goals and best work practices.