By understanding the reasons why we procrastinate, and what actually goes on in our brain causing us to procrastinate, we can find ways to tackle this bad habit.Vik Nithy gives us an insight in the parts of our brain that…
Today, in the Writers' Lab, we are taking a deeper look at how to write persuasive content.Regardless of the style of writing, the ultimate goal of your writing is typically that Someone Somewhere does Something with your ideas.If, for example,…
Today, I have the honor of inviting Laura Berger to share with us her Silver Lining. Laura Berger (26) is a PhD candidate in Business Administration at the Institute for Management Research, Radboud University Nijmegen. She studies the networking practices between…
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…
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