Recently I read the blog of The Thesis Whisperer. In this blog, Inger Mewburn ponders why we are all so tired. And how she noticed that more PhD students don’t show up at training sessions or courses. That it seems that the social aspect of PhD life seems to deteriorate.…
‘I can’t concentrate’, Peter is saying. Sandra reacts: ‘It seems I am working more hours weekly but with fewer results.’ ‘Doing your PhD can be such a sh*tty job now and then. It is never good enough; I am not progressing as I should and constantly struggling on my own.…
Have you ever heard of Paul de Blot? He was a Professor of Business Spirituality at Nijengrode Business University and has had an extraordinary life. Paul de Blot In short: he was born in 1924 in Indonesia, a Commando in the army during WWII and spent 5 years in a…
Please not now. I will do it later. First something else. Oh well, too late, I will do it tomorrow. I can hear myself thinking. Procrastination. Delaying your PhD. No interest in doing anything. It doesn’t really matter how you call it. It matters what you should do about it.…
Everything should run smoothly again by now, shouldn’t it? We have a little more space now the Universities have opened up again and with the Coronapas social life becomes a bit easier. It seems a little bit back to normal in many ways. So probably you think you should be…
What can you control? One of the major ideas of Stoicism is that you have to make a distinction between things that are within your control and things that are not. A modern version of this idea are Stephen Covey’s circle of influence and circle of concern, which are explained…
