Steve Tippins Ph.D. tells PhD students to stop comparing themselves to others and get curious about what's actually blocking them. Check if you're hungry, find the research you have, and make partial progress anyway. He's running a free dissertation help group.
Changing your mindset can be a big thing in helping you move forward. You sit down and you're working on something or you're not working on it and you're saying, why can't I do this? Oh my God, everybody else is doing it. And it's so easy to compare to other people and everybody else is doing something different. So, just realize that. Changing that mindset, changing your mindset from why can't I do this to gosh, I wonder what's in my way right now. What's blocking it. Become curious about things instead of basically beating yourself up. We might find a simple thing. You know, I'm hungry. That's why I'm not doing this. Or, you know, I don't have all the research on this topic, but I do have it on this other topic, so I can get that part of my dissertation completed or that part of this assignment completed. If you're looking for a community, join our free dissertation help group.
