Life Of E's

In preparing for a workshop I was doing recently entitled “Input, Throughput, Output,” where I used the metaphor of a conveyor belt, I found the greatest clipart!  It showed a guy sitting at his desk and the desk was a conveyor belt.  I want you to get that picture in your mind…and then ask yourself whether [...]

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Recently, a faculty member who had been in one of my workshops sent me this question: If you have any specific suggestions for resources related to keeping, managing, and using To Do lists, several people have also asked me for ideas in this area. Since this is one I struggle with, I haven’t been much [...]

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Thanks to Gina Hiatt of  The Academic Ladder for letting me include these tips:  I don’t know about you, but most academics find that they are simply exhausted at this time of year. It’s not just near the end of the semester, but the end of a long academic year. All you want to do [...]

Tags: Academic Ladder, academics, block, Gina Hiatt, Professors, writing

I am an introvert (and if you decided to read this post, you probably are, too). As introverts, we get our energy and ideas from being alone (whereas an extrovert gets energy from being with others). Another aspect of being an introvert is that it takes energy to interact with others – especially if there [...]

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Ten Ways to Grow a Backbone (by Gina Hiatt of The Academic Ladder; shared with permission) “Oh, good,” I said to myself, “Here are some of the books I ordered.  I hope these are the ones about dealing with back pain.”  The first book on the pile in the box was How to Grow a [...]

Tags: assertiveness, backbone, Gina Hiatt, graduate students, higher education, Meggin McIntosh, Professors, Susan Marshall, toxic