In our fast-paced, instant-solution-oriented society, we are focused on a quick fix and a hit of stimulant. We seek comfort and ease as much as we can.Yet, if we embark upon long-term projects, such as PhD research, our habits of…
I've spent significantly more attention to writing about writing in my posts this year, as I started the Writers' Lab. As I was preparing my thesis, and now am working towards my defense, writing felt like a suitable subject to…
Two months ago, I shared a podcast that shows the beneficial impact of meditation on the brain.Along the same lines, I am glad to be able to share this GoogleTechTalk with you. It shows some very interesting research on the…
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…
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