what i am glad i did – and did not do
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What I am glad I did – and did not do. Kathleen Vohs, University of Minnesota. Same advice I would give scholars at my stage…. Glad to have done. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
What I am glad I did – and did not do.
Kathleen Vohs, University of Minnesota
Same advice I would give scholars at my stage…
Glad to have done
Work your ass off.Connect, don’t network.Be engaged, be present.
Seek brutal feedback.Be interesting (Gray and Wegner, 2013 PPS)
Be ready to kill anything – exps, findings, paragraphs.
Find a topic that you love.
Write it down
Stop writing at an easy place.
Never trash others’ work in your writing.
Justify each new study.
Cite classic or most impactful works.
Read broadly (esp for methods)
Email is not work
Follow individual people’s careers, recent papers.
Take others’ perspective– in your writing
Take others’ perspective– when interacting with
coauthors
Don’t work with crappy collaborators more
than once
The best thing to do to work with a senior collaborator is to bring him or her data. Everyone loves when data fall into your lap!
Approach teaching as a means to figure out how to communicate our findings to people outside of our little academic realm.
You figure out what others want to hear about, and their assumptions.
Check the details —thrice
What we could all do better on
Say no to more projects – writing takes a lot of time and practice is
the only way to get better.
Recognizing that no one has to do anything for you.
Be grateful for all the time that others spend helping
you reach your goals.
Thank You!
Thank You!