Solo Session: “Failure” in PhD Explained

About this episode

This episode discusses the feeling of failure in PhD studies and reframes it as a normal part of the learning process.

Thank you for tuning in to PhD Lounge, you'll become a Doctor of Philosophy by immersing yourself into the latest topics of the PhD Universe Students and Graduates! The heavy feeling of “I’m failing” that hits when supervisor feedback is slow, sharp, or hard to predict, and how that can spiral into imposter syndrome, low achiever or fraudster thoughts. In this late-night talk, we reframe failure as a normal learning stage to strengthen your research and keep going. —> Identify gaps to impr...

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Host: Luis Maia de Freitas

Topics covered

• PhD
• failure
• imposter syndrome
• research
• learning
• feedback

Keywords

• PhD
• failure
• imposter syndrome
• research
• feedback
• learning
• graduate studies

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