A crazy end to a crazy year: a lumbago & taking a fall while bouldering outside
2020 was crazy and we’re all glad it’s over, am I right? But honestly, the ending wasn’t less crazy for me than the rest of the year. Or rather, the rest of the year...
Category: Work-Life Balance
Bouldering during Corona Winter
Today I want to share some thoughts on bouldering, anxiety about finishing the dissertation and the second wave of Covid with you. Since the area where I am right now has been labeled risk...
100 Day Challenges and Visualizing Progress
I recently tracked my work and ouput using a few challenges such as #100DaysofDH and #100DaysofDissertation. Now I wanted to share some of my experiences. This is, like so often, a reflection that got...
Testing Productivity Planners, Part II #HPXLIFE vs #phdlive
As you have already learned in Astrid’s recent post, we have been testing Brendon Burchard’s High Performance Planner. I had initiated this experiment in a particularly nasty stretch of Corona lockdown demotivation back in...
Epigrammetry goes Summer!
Dear readers and followers, dear fighters of academia and dear friends – well, first, yes, sorry for two weeks without a post. We are alright – things are just getting pretty chaotic and too...
How to teach #coronastyle
This is going to be a short post and I shall give you a glimpse of my first feedback on my distance teaching. This semester, I am giving a course on epigraphy at the...
(PhD) Life Wisdom Learned from Bouldering. Part III #ComeBackStronger
We were almost about to skip last week’s post because we had both forgotten about it. But then I went bouldering (my bouldergym has reopened!) and realized there were a few more things to...
Procrastination, addiction and Turning Pro
In the last post, I have already adressed the topic of the habits of the pro versus the amateur and also mentioned Steven Pressfield’s works (among others The War of Art and Turning Pro)....
Distance learning/distance teaching AF
So, folks, I am recently with a new job and for more than a month I have been struggling with all the great insecurities caused by Corona. One of the big new things: distance...
100 Days – Summary of a motivational experiment
So, I did it. I finished my challenge of 100 days of dissertation on Friday. I wrote about the idea for this challenge here in this post. You can see all my steps on...
The habits of a pro vs amateur
I recently watched this bouldering video which addressed, among many other things, the question of what it means to train like or be a professional. I thought this is actually very important for the...
New Insights from my Work-Life-Balance Project
I have talked about digital detoxes and work life balance a lot on this blog over the past year (such as this, this, this or this). But I haven’t stopped there. In fact, I’m...
(PhD) Life Wisdom learned from Bouldering. Part II
Hey there, guys! It’s time for part II of our PhD/Life Wisdom series concerning wisdom learned from bouldering. In Part I, Sarah told you about the following points we learn from climbing walls: 1....
Destroying The ‘Innate Workaholism’ Myth
Recently, I had this career planning workshop for high-performing young female researchers. We talked about many things like time management, finding our values, preventing burnout and so on. But one very common theme, at...
What’s your *one thing* which will move you forward in 2020?
Recently I witnessed a class at our climbing gym. It was about which strength training exercises you can do for antagonist muscles which are neglected in climbing. But those are not what I want...
