This is the time of the year for the many New Year’s resolutions. Or maybe it is the time of the vanishing of all these good intentions. According to statistics, only 90% of New Year’s resolutions are kept. Of course, you can be part of the remaining 10% but what…
Do you work really hard? Do you make many hours? But do you feel that your goals, which you stipulated probably with your supervisor for the coming year, are not so realistic? And they actually seemed very realistic at the time? If that is the case, maybe your first thought…
Mistakes are more important than successes. Why do I say this? Very simple: you will learn more from your mistakes, which will lead to more success! But how do you know when something went wrong, or that you were on the wrong track? Or that you should have done it…
I have written before what you can learn from living in a monastery, as described in a book of Anselm Grün and Petra Altmann. Today I would like to add something. Have a daily routine. Do you think that sounds boring? Yes, it does. Will it help you though? Absolutely! What…
A while ago I reread Marinus Knoope’s book The Creation Spiral (De Creatiespiraal 1998). The book is about the natural cycle from wish to reality, as mentioned in the sub title. In the book the writer explains how your wishes can become reality. He compares this cycle with the natural…
‘You have exactly one year to finish your thesis.’ This remark or any remark about time will send most PhD students into a frenzy. How come? Uncertainty The main reason is uncertainty about what needs to be done to reach the end product. Often this seems an incomprehensible mountain without…
