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    Burnout is a real medical condition
    Shayna Sheinfeld, Ph.D.
    • Jun 3, 2019
    • 1 min

    Burnout is a real medical condition

    Academia is a ripe environment for burnout, as its culture encourages overwork and discourages whole life integration.
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    Drowning in your liminality? Listen to this.
    Shayna Sheinfeld, Ph.D.
    • Mar 29, 2019
    • 2 min

    Drowning in your liminality? Listen to this.

    A couple weeks ago I published a blog post about Liminality and the Job Market. Here I argued that while the majority of Ph.D.s end up...
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    Liminality and the Job Market
    Shayna Sheinfeld, Ph.D.
    • Mar 15, 2019
    • 4 min

    Liminality and the Job Market

    “A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.” –Brutus, to Caesar, Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare The Ides of March—March 15—is...
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    Writing Accountability Groups
    Shayna Sheinfeld, Ph.D.
    • Mar 6, 2019
    • 4 min

    Writing Accountability Groups

    For the next four blog posts I will discuss different types of writing groups and how they can benefit your academic writing and style....
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    Guest Post: What would your "Priorities Mansion"​ Look Like?
    Shayna Sheinfeld, Ph.D.
    • Feb 28, 2019
    • 3 min

    Guest Post: What would your "Priorities Mansion"​ Look Like?

    Every January since the early 80s, when I first learned what a "resolution" was, I've been making them. As a natural goal-setter, ...
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    Organizing your Time
    Shayna Sheinfeld, Ph.D.
    • Feb 13, 2019
    • 2 min

    Organizing your Time

    This is the last in a series of posts about setting and accomplishing goals. Read about the steps of Looking back, recognizing and owning...
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    Short on Time? —Multiply it by asking Four Questions
    Shayna Sheinfeld, Ph.D.
    • Feb 1, 2019
    • 2 min

    Short on Time? —Multiply it by asking Four Questions

    In a TEDx talk, Rory Vaden discusses the problems with current approaches to time management. Rather than try to manage time, he says,...
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    Developing a SMART plan
    Shayna Sheinfeld, Ph.D.
    • Jan 31, 2019
    • 2 min

    Developing a SMART plan

    As academics, we like to think we are smart. And we are, but not always with everything, and certainly not with the never-ending work...
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    Recognizing and Owning your Worth
    Shayna Sheinfeld, Ph.D.
    • Jan 15, 2019
    • 3 min

    Recognizing and Owning your Worth

    At this point in the process you have spent time taking stock of your goals in the past, and where you have succeeded at reaching them...
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    Looking Back
    Shayna Sheinfeld, Ph.D.
    • Jan 1, 2019
    • 3 min

    Looking Back

    In my last post I wrote about the challenge of making resolutions that we can actually keep, rather than setting ourselves up for...
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    Developing Effective New Year's Resolutions
    Shayna Sheinfeld, Ph.D.
    • Dec 30, 2018
    • 2 min

    Developing Effective New Year's Resolutions

    I am suspicious of new year’s resolutions—according to the research of Prof. John C. Norcross (the University of Scranton), 45% of...
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