Vlog 207 - How to set up your life to write
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- Writing cannot be added to an already full life. How you think about time, space, productivity, efficiency, success and achievement must all transform. But how do you calibrate your daily patterns and behaviours for writing? This vlog provides some answers to this question.
5:25 Have a plan, have a whiteboard
8:04 Pick your priority
9:38 Create the opportunity for good behavior
11:07 Make sure that the desk is clean
12:29 Each week construct seven writing priorities
13:28 Structurally stopping all distractions
13:51 Take breaks
15:16 Think about the people with whom you spend time
16:52 Consider your relationship with sound
18:17 Say no a lot
19:26 Address your dependencies
21:03 Make sure that you improve something every day
23:00 Stop the gothic self-talk
25:26 If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist
27:10 Pick your rabbit
28:55 Change your attitude to failure
30:08 Have the courage to be different
31:07 Schedule writing
32:01 Control what you can control
Amazing vlog, dear professor Tara! Thank you so much for these amazing bits of advice. I find them extremely helpful and strengthening. I`m in my final year of PhD(the 6th) and I`ve wasted the past three years complaining, avoiding, in denial and in self-denigration. Hopefully, with your help, I will be able to overcome my fear of writing and finish to a PhD standard. God bless you!
I want to imprint every single word of this vlog in my brain! Thank you Prof. Tara!!
I'm very impressed that a professor takes part of her time to give thise invaluable advice
I absolutely adore your personality. Thank you for sharing your content and perspectives.
My virtual mentor in academia. Thanks Prof and wish you the very best.
This is great information. I’m an undergraduate trying to get into academic writing to boost my finance career and my writing career. Thank you for the blessing.
I'm watching now nice sharing
I want to say thank you, I’m taking my PhD and your insights helps me a lot.
Watching this for about the fourth time. Brilliant!
Why didn' t I found Your vlog sooner!? 1 year to go... Thanks for all the great talks and best wishes from Sweden!
I love your vlogs! Can't thank you enough
perfect timing ...i'm writing my thesis. Thank you so much.
Love your inspirational energy... that's what I needed to hear. Please talk about the pain and pressure when you do your studies in a foreign language and your supervisor needs you to write native-like
This is exactly what my small ears wanted to hear.i can't thank you enough prof. May God bless you abundantly.
Thank you so much. You're my honorary supervisor!!
Great video for ECRs as well - Thanks Tara!
女士， 您讲得很不错！谢谢您. Thanks ma'am. You really explain beautifully!
Really helpful, going to have to watch a few times!
Hi Prof. very fabulous here! Amazing work you are doing inspiring and motivating lots and lots of people out here. Always looking forward to hearing your new talk. Indeed you have helped clean my desk.
its like you are in my head.. Slow Writing, Fast Writing and now this..
THANK YOU so much!!
Going to listen to some of these on my headphones while I'm out walking :) thanks
Thank you Tara, this is fantastic! Not just tips for writing, but some good life advice as well!
Thank you so much. you tackled every spot of life basically, you are brilliant.
This is so wonderful to watch, love to the professor :)
Have told everyone who could benefit about your broadcasts! Thanks so much for sharing your incredibly helpful experience.
Great vlog! Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful information ! You are fabulous !!
this is a great video!! Unfortunately, due to the Pandemic, I got stranded at my parents house since March. So what had to be a quick visit has turned into half a year living with my parents (yay!). It has been beyond hard to get anything done. It is extremely difficult to make my family understand that I need a schedule, that I need quiet space, that I am not just "studying" (like for an exam)... ugh! This has been the least productive stage of my PhD and I've become more and more frustrated. I must learn to say NO often!! Thanks for all your wonderful tips and for sharing your knowledge with us!!!
Loved this vlog so much... really useful tips especially about the silence 💕 and saying no.
perfect timing! thank you Prof. Tara. ♥️
Wonderful Henry - always lovely to hear from you! txxx
Thank you for a very educative talk. Stay blessed.
Amazing discussions and Vlogs. I am doing a part time PhD student at University of Salford. Tha mnks for the help.
I like this woman. Thank you so much 🙏🏼
Brilliant points of advice there...totally brilliant.
Very useful and motivational..
As I am now writing my chapters for PhD thesis....
Thank you Tara. Very practical suggestions offered.
Thank you Samuel - you let me know how I can help if there are areas I have missed txxx
Awesome! Thank you, Tara!
This is an awesome video. Thank you!
very timely, thanks Tara!
This is great - I'm sure i'll watch this again
Glad it may be of use Mathew - and let me kwow what else I can do to help. Txxx
This is just what I needed. Thank you for a great vlog as usual.
Thank you wonderful Joy. txxx
This wonderful Professor terrifies me (I wouldn't hand in anything late if she were my supervisor), makes me laugh out loud and inspires me.. thanks (as always) for your thoughtful and interesting thoughts and pointers..
Brilliant ❤
Amazing vlogs as always. Best salutations from Morocco.
Thank you so much, Otmane - you are wonderful. Biggest wave back to Morocco! txxx
This lady is fantastic.
Handy! Thanks Tara!
Big hi Chrisogonas! txxx
really love your vlog!
Thank you John - biggest hug :) txxx
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Thank you Maestra!
Big wave Yheu! txxx
thank you Tara！
Thanks you BCCGSG txxx
Great timing in a week of global mayhem - make order of the disorder and pick your rabbit! Thank you!
Thanks, there are too many people in my lab, I cannot concentrate................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... and these small sounds i cannot bear them
Good morning TheAARSAA - I am so sorry you are going through this. What I'd advise is work out an alternative space for any work that is not lab-based. We have wonderful engineers who come to our quiet zone once a day to write up their daily results. See if that is possible... You are fabulous - hang in there. txxx
What you said at 11:08 caused emotional damage to your desk.
hi Tara, Thank you for another informative video. can you make one about how to deal with institutional microaggression for minority PhD students in a hyper hegemonic masculine university...
Violeta - that is a powerful idea. I'll work on how to make that one work for you. And please - take care of yourself. Txxx
@@officeofgraduateresearchfl9343 Hi Tara, thanks for the attention, I am wondering whether I should leave my wonderful amazing experienced caring supervisor & somewhat racist uni, to another university with a doubled percentage of international PhDs & admin staff and a recently graduated supervisor who is also caring and kind...here is my email if you need case studies (violetazyc@gmail.com), I also know 3 previous PhDs who have left for the same reason. My department hasn't had a none caucasian PhD graduate since 1997, now I know why, at least partially...
Gurl what works for you won't necessarily work for everyone/anyone else. Some people write better in a busy cafe. Some people need to alternate between the two...
Greetings wonderful S - you are absolutely right. That's why I've talked about managing the soundscape. If you want silence - you've got to construct that. If you want sonic life around you - you've got to construct that. And yes - the dream is always to create alternate spaces for different types of drafting. The point that worries me is that - in the contemporary universities - the spaces for these 'choices' are shrinking. So the time we have - we have to use. And so many of us are battling to find a fab five minutes for coffee :). But you are absolutely right - construct sonic spaces that enable your best writing self. Biggest hug to ya, S. txxx
Awesome! Thank you, Tara!