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Two Hundred Weeks: Productivity for Mortal PhD Students (book extract)

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Productivity as Avoidance, or How *Not* to Think about Doctoral Productivity (book extract)

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Is Doctoral Productivity Bad?

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Tiny idea: To-do lists are menus

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Tiny practice: Beating procrastination with The Right Now List

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ChatGPT's doctoral productivity advice... and four ideas the algorithm will (probably) not give you

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Tiny idea: Use the Regret Test for daily decision-making

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Breathing through the PhD: Breathwork in the doctorate

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Tiny idea: Subtraction

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Tiny practice: Granny's rule

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A happy Master thesis: Progress and appropriation even before the PhD

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Intervision: Unblocking yourself... with a little help from some friends

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Quickie: Preloading productive meditation (book extract)

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The four disciplines of executing your PhD (book extract)

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Four scheduling strategies of successful PhD students (book extract)

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The Create/Consume Hypothesis: A simple rule for more effective and valuable PhD work

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Facing addiction to social media in the PhD

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Forget New Year's resolutions -- Do a Yearly Review instead

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Chronobiology addendum: A neurobiologist's guide to a healthy and productive day

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Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (II): The science of breaks

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A Monday Mantra to face uncomfortable emotions (#2 productivity challenge sneak peek)

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Defusing task conflict in the PhD

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The three most common productivity challenges of PhD students

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Micro-breaks and two Monday Mantras to supercharge them

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Notes on chronobiology for the PhD (I): Circadian rhythms

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More effective group decision-making meetings

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Take your holidays… the right way

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A Monday Mantra for times of coronavirus

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On Sleep

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Advising for progress: tips for PhD supervisors

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Cultivating the progress loop in your PhD

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Monday Mantra #4: On attention

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Report from the trenches: of calendar tricks and time scarcity

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Productivity tip: How I do weekly reviews

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Monday mantra #3: When you have too many open fronts

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A small hiatus, and a Monday Mantra

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How to deal with to-do list overwhelm

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Productivity tip: the Pomodoro technique