When Motivation Runs Out | PhD student

What do you do when your motivation runs low? PhDs are enormous undertakings, and for years there can be little to show for your efforts. I’m presently in one such motivation slump myself, and in this video try to figure out what can be done about it. You might not like the answer.

Not one of my most uplifting, sorry! But a student has got to be honest. Here’s an earlier video with some jazzy music to remind you that it’s not always this tough: https://youtu.be/ilCIvt0gRAc

Previous video: https://youtu.be/LADMebrl9NQ

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New video every other Wednesday (ish)! Please comment to suggest a topic relating to postgraduate life that you’d like to see covered, or get in touch:

Twitter: @LeKissick
Website: lucykissick.co.uk
Email: lucy.kissick@earth.ox.ac.uk

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Credits music with permission from the incredibly talented post-rockers Silent Island. The song is ‘Dolphin Rush’ and you can find it here on Bandcamp from their album Fall of Oceans: https://silentisland.bandcamp.com/album/fall-of-oceans

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My name is Lucy Kissick, I’m a third year PhD student at the University of Oxford, and yeah I probably would take a ticket to Mars, just so long as it was two-way.

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