Is your writing in need of a diet? It is really hard to write good texts. The reason some academic prose is so hard to read is because it is too ‘heavy’: it has too many passives, prepositions, adjectives and other complex grammar constructions. In short: it needs to lose…
Writing is probably the most important part of your PhD. Without the right texts, no papers, no articles, no thesis. The longer you spend on writing, the longer your PhD will take. It is that simple! So it is very important that you have great writing skills, to be more…
Do you suffer from stress now and then? Or do you feel depressed? Do you have problems falling asleep? Are you anxious? Is it hard for you to concentrate? Unfortunately many PhD students struggle with some of these symptoms to a greater or lesser extent. And the problem is that…
Many PhD students read and study a lot. Sometimes you do wonder how you can improve your learning. In this article I would like to suggest some recommendations, which are based on an article of the Association for Psychological Science. Why is it necessary to evaluate how you learn and…
What is it that makes you successful? Is it because you are smart, you have a great analytical brain or are very creative? Or is it just luck that some people have success and others don’t. The analyst and former researcher Richard St. John researched it all and explains in…
Destin Sandlin of Smarter Every Day has done a brilliant experiment. He had a bicycle made that turns the opposite way of steering. So if you steer to the right, you will go left and the other way round. What will happen? Watch the film. Why is this so interesting?…
