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Caught up in Fearing Failure, Avoiding Risks, Watching Time Slip Away?

A dissertation client told me that that a couple of years ago her professor suggested they plan to publish together. But the graduate student could never get herself to devote even a day to work on...

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Do You Use the All-or-Nothing Distortion?

Even though you may have a stated intention of working on your dissertation and making steady progress, you do everything and anything to sabotage yourself.  Could this be you? If  this sounds...

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Perfectionism be damned!

Perfectionism gives you a perfect excuse never to write. Perfectionism not only slows productivity, but it also makes sure that your dissertation will never meet your expectations.   Put up with the...

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How will I know if my idea is any good?

In the Mad Men episode “The Strategy” (5/18/2014), advertising copy chief Peggy Olson is angry and demoralized because the more experienced, assured Don Draper has suggested possible changes to her...

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To Build Self-Confidence, Stick with the Frustration of the Intellectual...

  In The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance—What Women Should Know, ABC news reporter Claire Shipman and BBC anchor Katty Kay write that women suffer from a lack of confidence to...

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