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11 Jan 2023 Conversations with Tyler Katherine Rundell on the Art of Words
“A PhD is the hardest form of writing, I think, in terms of galvanizing yourself into wanting to do it.”
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- Katherine Rundell
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- Claim type
- belief
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- 11 Jan 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…So you’ve stopped doing it because you don’t need to do it, not that you think it’s a terrible idea. Because I no longer need to do it with quite such urgency. A PhD is the hardest form of writing, I think, in terms of galvanizing yourself into wanting to do it. Why do so few writers use markets and self-constraint? So many people will say, “I want to finish. I want to finish earlier, want to finish my thesis.” But very few people do what you did, I find. You claim it’s effective. I suspect that’s correct. Incentives matter, and no one copies that. What’s going on?…
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