Alternatively, you could just get more hours to fit into one day!
(On a serious note, Cal Newport has a pretty good blog post about the value of doing fewer things. He's not talking about getting a Ph.D., but some of what he says still applies. I think one of the hardest things about doing a Ph.D. is having to cut things out, especially if you're not used to having to cut things out. This is true even if we're only talking about work and not social stuff. I've been talking to some folks lately about the problem of finding a Research Identity™. Eventually, you need a theme around which to wrap a thesis proposal. It doesn't have to be Your Identity Forevermore, but it probably will have to be your identity for a while, like at least a year or two. And you probably will have to dismiss some other awesome things during that time, because they don't fit, and those things are hard to let go of. I'm struggling with that right now.)
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The answer is, you need a clock of holding. Someone should probably invent one of those.
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(On a serious note, Cal Newport has a pretty good blog post about the value of doing fewer things. He's not talking about getting a Ph.D., but some of what he says still applies. I think one of the hardest things about doing a Ph.D. is having to cut things out, especially if you're not used to having to cut things out. This is true even if we're only talking about work and not social stuff. I've been talking to some folks lately about the problem of finding a Research Identity™. Eventually, you need a theme around which to wrap a thesis proposal. It doesn't have to be Your Identity Forevermore, but it probably will have to be your identity for a while, like at least a year or two. And you probably will have to dismiss some other awesome things during that time, because they don't fit, and those things are hard to let go of. I'm struggling with that right now.)
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