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.
You don’t need to know 398 steps ahead. You just need to know the next small first step.
Yes, yes, yes – you are allowed to curate your PhD experience the way you want and need it to be
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.
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.
How to dream forward into possibility and away from fear
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…”
Our fears of what others will think usually amounts more specifically to a fear that we’ll upset them or they’ll think less of us. So, here’s two nifty things you can do to release that burden of trying to please everyone.
We’ve been going about this ‘worst case scenario’ gubbins all wrong. So, instead of focusing all our energy and putting all our boss planning skillzzz into anticipating the worst, how about this…
Just because everyone else is driving themselves hard, it doesn’t make it more okay for us to beat up harder on ourselves. It’s the opposite: it’s realising that it’s totally, forgivingly okay that we don’t do everything we set out to do.
The one thing that is fucking up your head and your own bloody brilliant, amazing, productive, successful progress is this default setting that all our tricksy brains have that insists on comparing.
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