These are the 10 most viewed posts in my blog during 2011. They cover PhD life, advice for young and not so young scientists, and generally useful stuff.
We all want to be somebody different. We all look up to someone we would like to imitate. There is so many people, me included, that feel inadequate, not good enough. All what we want is to be better, improve ourselves. No wonder why self-help books abound in the New York Times’ list of Best [...]
Being quite a procrastinator and a time wasting guy is not easy. Many times I feel guilty for wasting my time and my employers money. At least it looks to me I am wasting them. This procrastination guilt kept piling up day after day and the feeling was not a nice one. When the end [...]
(Photo: koalazymonkey) “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” This is Parkinson’s Law, one of the mental models used by Charles Munger and others. It comes to say: the amount of time you have to finish a task, is the amount of time you will use. So what is so special about it? [...]
(Photo: benleto) What you fear you create. – Dr. Phil If you react negatively to your stereotyped intuitions, the situation will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you react positively, you have 53% probability that the outcome is more positive than you expected. The challenge – When you dislike somebody or fear a situation, your response to these [...]
