motivation/inspiration

Celebrate your successes!

Success is explored in many ways. The internet is overflowing with quotes on success.         The theme in all these quotes is that success has to be earned. And because you work so hard for it, you will continue working and don’t really reflect on the successes…

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motivation/inspiration

How to become a genius

If you are a PhD student, in general you will not be picked to be one because of your creativity. Usually you are chosen because of your analytical skills, logic, intelligence, your ability to work well-detailed: you are chosen on the things that have to do with the left half…

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motivation/inspiration

Motivation? It’s TOTALLY gone

Do you have that as well? That sometimes your motivation seems ABSOLUTELY gone? That you don’t have a clue anymore why you started your PhD in the first place? That you would actually prefer that you never started? Well, you are actually not alone. I honestly don’t know any PhD-student…

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