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10 (20) truths about doing a PhD
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10 (20) truths about doing a PhD

ByJamie Pei May 26, 2023May 26, 2023

Which of these do you choose to be true for you?

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Dial up the joy in your PhD life
blog | Magic | PhD thoughts | Spark

Dial up the joy in your PhD life

ByJamie Pei April 12, 2023May 2, 2023

Opening up the possibility that PhD life – and the entire academic cosmos around it – can be a different way: that is joyful, pleasurable, full of ease and lightness and fun.

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What’s so hard about doing a PhD anyway?
blog | PhD thoughts | Sovereignty | You-niverse

What’s so hard about doing a PhD anyway?

ByJamie Pei July 18, 2022May 2, 2023

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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What is ‘good enough’ for the PhD?
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What is ‘good enough’ for the PhD?

ByJamie Pei June 30, 2022May 2, 2023

What the actual fuck does it mean to be ‘good enough’ in PhD or academia anyway?

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You ≠ your fuck-ups
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You ≠ your fuck-ups

ByJamie Pei June 13, 2022June 13, 2022

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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The PhD can be challenging AND joyful
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The PhD can be challenging AND joyful

ByJamie Pei June 9, 2022May 2, 2023

Challenges/difficulties AND invigorating, stimulating, joyful fulfilment in the PhD process are not two mutually exclusively things.

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Who are you in your PhD?
blog | PhD thoughts | You-niverse

Who are you in your PhD?

ByJamie Pei June 2, 2022May 2, 2023

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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The PhD is a strange thing
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The PhD is a strange thing

ByJamie Pei April 27, 2022May 2, 2023

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.

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Your examiners DON’T know best
blog | PhD thoughts | Sovereignty | Spark

Your examiners DON’T know best

ByJamie Pei April 15, 2022May 2, 2023

Your examiners’ assessment of your PhD is not the only one that matters (in fact it doesn’t need to matter at all). Here’s why.

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That person you’re comparing to is a hot mess too
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That person you’re comparing to is a hot mess too

ByJamie Pei April 4, 2022May 2, 2023

Consider these 3 things the very next time you start thinking, “But I suck and I’m failing my PhD because they’re doing better than me…”

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