I hear it a lot from PhD students: they are incredibly busy; make many hours and even work in evenings and weekends. Then they tell me with a straight face that they actually achieve more working under lots of pressure. Those who know me a bit longer or have…
Reading a good book can affect you, it can give you a good feeling, can take you out of the present moment, can help you to relax. The effects of a good book Emory University’s researchers were wondering if the impression of a good book – books can make you…
I think it is always fun to do some experiments. Well, that’s my opinion. And probably you share that view. Being a PhD student you are in your head a lot of the time. Very logical, you need to think a lot, use your logic and figure things out. Consequences…
Do you recognise this? You set goals but it is really hard to meet them? You are missing your deadlines; you make plans but can’t seem to keep them? Or that you are completely intimidated by the empty computer screen in front of you as soon as you want to…
Do you have the same feeling that the beginning of a new year creates new possibilities and new changes? That you can make a new start, leave everything behind and start all over? It is a shame that that feeling disappears quite quickly again. You will be back in the…
So, do you remember the resolutions you made at the beginning of this year? Or maybe the ones you made at the beginning of the Academic New Year? Big chance that you made a start, but that you stranded again. That’s what happens normally with resolutions. And you promised yourself…
