know_yourself – Page 38 – ORGANIZING CREATIVITY

Dissertation Crises

2010-05-17

A overview of the possible crises that can happen during a PhD -- sorted in beginning, mid, and end, and each with Description, What breaks you, and possible solution. Highly recommended for PhDs.
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Real Performance

2010-05-15

An impressive trailer of what performance can mean (in a fictional setting), and how it compares to performance in other areas, e.g., academia.
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Dissertation Crisis — Past the Mountain

2010-05-10

In many PhD theses, you come to the point where everything seems like a failure and your self-confidence is just shattered. That's normal. Read and bugger on.
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Creative Glitter

2010-05-10

You know what I mean? The fluff some "creative" people surround themselves with? Well ...
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Change the Medium

2010-04-25

Sometimes you cannot realize a creative project -- you just can't. It's beyond you. But there's a solution for it.
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The Things We Can Do

2010-04-21

Isn't the world just wonderful -- enabling you to do all these creative works?
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Delegating the hard (or tedious) stuff

2010-03-31

You don't have to do all parts of a creative project -- some things are better delegated to professionals.
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PostDoc RoadMap

2010-02-04

How do you plan your post-doc phase? Here's a suggestion. (Update: Looking at it four years later, I think it's too detailed and optimistic. And it needed better feedback.)
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BTW, posts can get updated after I published them if I spot spelling errors (not a native speaker) or think a different wording might improve precision and clarity.