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What I am glad I did – and did not do.

What I am glad I did – and did not do. Kathleen Vohs, University of Minnesota. Same advice I would give scholars at my stage…. Glad to have done.

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What I am glad I did – and did not do.

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  1. What I am glad I did – and did not do. Kathleen Vohs, University of Minnesota

  2. Same advice I would give scholars at my stage…

  3. Glad to have done

  4. Work your ass off.Connect, don’t network.Be engaged, be present.Seek brutal feedback.Be interesting (Gray and Wegner, 2013 PPS)Be ready to kill anything – exps, findings, paragraphs.

  5. Find a topic that you love.

  6. Write it down

  7. Stop writing at an easy place.

  8. Never trash others’ work in your writing.

  9. Justify each new study.

  10. Cite classic or most impactful works.

  11. Read broadly (esp for methods)

  12. Email is not work

  13. Follow individual people’s careers, recent papers.

  14. Take others’ perspective– in your writing

  15. Take others’ perspective– when interacting with coauthors

  16. Don’t work with crappy collaborators more than once

  17. The best thing to do to work with a senior collaborator is to bring him or her data. Everyone loves when data fall into your lap!

  18. Approach teaching as a means to figure out how to communicate our findings to people outside of our little academic realm.You figure out what others want to hear about, and their assumptions.

  19. Check the details —thrice

  20. What we could all do better on

  21. Say no to more projects – writing takes a lot of time and practice is the only way to get better.

  22. Recognizing that no one has to do anything for you.

  23. Be grateful for all the time that others spend helping you reach your goals.

  24. Thank You!

  25. Thank You!

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