1/ I've talked about my extended post-defense brain fog on here for a while now. Yesterday I realized: That ain't it. I spent the morning working on a very specific task with a well-defined deadline and poof -- my brain worked like it use to and it felt effortless.
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2/ What happened? I think during my
#phdlife I accumulated literally hundreds of projects and a dozen or so really cool ones that I wanted to do when I had time. Now that the phd is done it's pretty obvious: there is never enough time for all that.2 replies 0 retweets 20 likesShow this thread -
3/ Narrowing down all the cool projects I fantasized about doing *during* the phd is an exhausting let down exactly because they were fantasies and now I have to carefully reject them as such.
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4/ (This may be the most depressing thing I've written about on here, and I've written repeatedly about my experience with cancer. Killing dreams that helped you get by feels like murder.)
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Replying to @generativist
I feel like this is sort of the ADHD vibe? I collapse without structure.
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