Why you should read The Opposable Mind
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For fifteen years prior to this book’s publication, author Roger Martin studied successful leaders, interviewing more than fifty of them for up to eight hours at a time, trying …
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The 125 Hour Work Week
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Recently, if you listened hard enough, you could hear the collective sob of well-read junior scientists as Science Careers posted a commentary from Eleftherios P. Diamandis. Dr. Diamandis attributed his …
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5 Ways to Instantly Appear More Confident
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It’s fall conference season. Put your best foot forward as you speak and network with five tips from Nerd Fitness. Today I’m going to teach how you to …
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Productivity Tip #4: Do You Put the PRO in Procrastination?
Rebecca Helton, MA
Do You Put the PRO in Procrastination? Procrastination is closely related to impatience. Their kinship is based on our bias toward the present over the future. Both are examples of …
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Walk the Dog: How Writing Every Day Can Make a Project Seem Less Daunting
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
In her Chronicle Vitae article, Joli Jensen equates her daily writing time with walking the dog. That is, many people view their writing obligations as “wild beasts, lurking in the …
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NIH Director, Time to Bring Science to the People American Ninja Warrior Style
Fighty Squirrel, PhD, Awe.Some.
The best problems in science and medicine are solved over a delicious cocktail. Cocktails release dopamine. Alcohol an awesome preconditioning agent against subsequent stress and is a lot better than …
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Know the Vital Players in Your Career: Tenure-Track Peers
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An assistant professor in the social sciences once described a group of tenure-track colleagues in his department as “the lamenting society.” Once a week they met for lunch to complain …
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Scientists and Clinicians: PR is Not a Four Letter Word
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Many of us were trained to avoid reporters like the plague. We were told that our words would be misconstrued, our colleagues would judge us as being ‘showy’ and that …
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From Advisee to Peer
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Question: A friend of mine and I were talking today about what it’s like to be newly minted Ph.D.’s, working on our first jobs. We became more …
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Midcareer Mentoring
Rebecca Helton, MA
Much has been written about how much time an assistant professor should spend on “service” work and what types of service might be important for career advancement, as opposed to …
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