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Emotions and intellect

Dr. Max Lempriere

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Navigating the PhD journey is as much an emotional challenge as it is an intellectual one.

Yet it’s easy to see the emotional and intellectual dimensions of the PhD as two distinct things.

In reality though, they’re closely related. How you’re feeling emotionally is going to have an impact on how you’re operating intellectually, and how you’re working intellectually is going to impact on how you’re feeling emotionally.

Thinking in this way allows you to recognise that your academic development (and progress through your PhD) depends just as much on having a positive, healthy mindset as it does on ticking all the academic and intellectual boxes.

In other words: don’t neglect your emotional well-being!

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