Productivity

In this section I attempt to provide some advice fom my (so far) twelve years of academia on all the different difficult things we have to face: organising our workload and meeting deadlines, reading and taking notes, writing (and dealing with feedback), presenting, revising and taking exams. I've only got a few of these covered right now, but more coming!

thecomplexbrain.com - Literature Reviews with Obsidian When writing essays or introduction sections for your lab reports and finally your dissertation (or indeed for a PhD), you’re going to have to read a lot of papers, take notes, and make sure you have access to those notes in a usable form when you come to actually write. It’s useful to make the

thecomplexbrain.com - Dealing with feedback / comments The Problem My job involves a lot of writing and one of the most frustrating tasks I encounter is making changes to pieces of writing based upon feedback / comments from other people (much as I appreciate their advice of course!). I think there are a few reasons for this, and I also think they can

thecomplexbrain.com - Beating Procrastination This is a handbook I give to my students on how to develop 'Self-Compassionate Self-discipline' i.e. how to train yourself to work when you need to work without resorting to self criticism. This is currently a pdf - I may convert it into a proper blog at some point.

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