When you force yourself to work on a research problem, until you find the solution, you might be putting too much pressure on yourself and actually hurting your creative process.Instead, you should try to take a few days of distance…
When skimming through a paper, you typically read the abstract, glance over the introduction and conclusions and study the figures. However, when we write (and subsequently proofread) our papers, the figure captions are an often overlooked element of writing.By writing compelling…
As part of the "Learning Creative Learning" MOOC from the MIT Medialab, we got assigned watching this video.For all of us in higher education, there is so much food for thought in this talk. Joi Ito touches upon using the…
RSA Animate made an interesting video of what motivates us:We all know that sticks and stones won't make us get our PhD. In this video, we get a few glimpses of how motivation really works. In the light of PhD…
My thesis, after the help of Mr KittyDo you have a plan for improving your writing?Or do you simply assume that one glorious summer morning, you will open your laptop, start typing your dissertation, and finish happily a few months…
I recently came across The Daily Checklist on Zen Habits. These are the most powerful ideas in the article:A good tool for learning to trust yourself to do all the important stuff is to make a daily checklist. Put 5-7…
If you want to move a project or task forward, there are many techniques that you can apply to give yourself that little extra kick.You can prepare yourself by starting with a 5 minute meditation.You can use the Pomodoro technique.When…
As I was determining which journal papers I can write from my dissertation, and where to publish them I gathered a little list of interesting journals and their respective impact factors.For those of you in my field of research, here…
Have you ever wondered with doing a PhD at Delft University of Technology is like? Well, a few fellow PhD students made a short movie to show you all what it's like. And the cool thing: it's filmed in the…
Flickr Image under CC license by ceolmTeaching science, especially to teenagers, should be an opportunity to share our love for science with curious and young people. But too often teachers simply end up boring their students to death. (I, too,…
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