Posts Tagged with Emotions

This is our last post for the Emotions and the PhD Pomodoro Break mini-course. I want to leave you with a sense of what can sustain you through the emotional rollercoaster of doctoral studies. LOVE There’s the passion you feel for your particular topic that we explored yesterday, and...

Today we’ll look at boredom and passion. You can use both of these emotions to push your work forward and get where you want to be in your studies. BOREDOM When you start out on the PhD journey, it’s hard to imagine that you’ll encounter boredom along the path. But...

Today we think about fear and curiosity. Of course, fear can prevent progress, but it’s important to understand how curiosity can also become a stumbling block. Both can be managed, and we’ll look at strategies to help you do this. FEAR HDRs face a whole raft of fears during...

These negative emotions might not sound like a fun focus for you today; we need to acknowledge them, but also consider ways of dealing with them. FRUSTRATION Frustration can appear in various forms during the PhD: research does not always run smoothly and the associated writing is also fraught...

Embarking on a PhD marks the beginning of a long journey that inevitably has a series of ups and downs. You are likely to experience a range of emotions that are both positive and negative; sometimes emotions that might feel negative can also act as a positive force. All...