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Does PhD make you "kheradmand"?*

Well I am addicted to blogging and I can't not write. So bear with me while I have to write in English.

Remember that "Ghorazeh" computer I had with Windows "dozdi"? well, I can't use that anymore until I go get a genuine copy of the software which will be a while. This laptop they have given me from work doesn't let me activate Farsi language so I am stuck.

Anyway, one of the really good advices I heard during my PhD education which really helped me make progress was this:

Never mistake effort with results.

Now how many of you guys do that? I used to do it all the time. Thinking that I can stop working now because I have tried for so many hours and put in so much of effort. Well, guess what? that's not how it works. What really matters is to get to the goals you have set. Otherwise you will be frustrated, feel incompetent, and your manager will be unhappy with your performance because what s/he cares about is your results not the effort.

Now you might tell me that you have done your best and you still didn't reach the goal. My first reaction is "did you really do your best?"...if you in all honesty did then you are doing something wrong...you probably need to gain a set of skills you don't have such as time management and stress management. Or you don't know how to set up realistic achievable goals and assess your abilities realistically so you can connect your dreams to your current reality.

Whatever it is, stop complaining and start working harder and remember that "a job half done is a job not done".

Now this was my two cents of wisdom that I had gained through my PhD and I wanted to pass it on to you.

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* This is the question Kayvan asked me after my defense and I intend to write about it once in a while.

October 8, 2008 11:17 PM

Comments

Thanks for sharing it with us.

Solaleh | October 8, 2008 11:59 PM

Thanks for sharing it with us.

Solaleh | October 8, 2008 11:59 PM

Thanks for sharing it with us.

Solaleh | October 8, 2008 11:59 PM

this was like a heads up for me .... thanks. i very often find myself surrounded with many unfinished sweated tasks.
and keep blogging. we like your english posts just as much:) l

jeerjeerak | October 9, 2008 12:23 AM

btw, this might be of use to you if you wanna write something short in farsi:

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jeerjeerak | October 9, 2008 12:26 AM

thanks for sharing

Behrooz | October 9, 2008 12:40 AM

Thanks for your helpful advise.I like the way you write in english.......please keep going.

zibayezendegi | October 9, 2008 5:37 AM

خوب مینویسی

Anonymous | October 9, 2008 10:00 AM

You will not like this comment and may remove it but beware that not everything we learn in american corporates (american universities are no exception) is correct. What you have written is corporate culture, the culture which tries to make you the best profitable person for the corporate, not the best person or the healthiest, mentally or physically or even socially. I don't think this is what you should have learned as a PhD,. PhD is all about creativity and curiosity and passion to explore. You develop the skill to go beyond what others, specially your manager think!

me | October 9, 2008 12:07 PM

Olfat told me exactly the same thing:" that i dont know why when i tell my son to buy Milk from store, he just goes to store and come back and says they didnt have the milk!. but the point was that he should have bought the milk not just going to store

k | October 9, 2008 3:09 PM

it is really interesting that I come across this post while I am so worry about my papers. I wonder if it is possible for you to introduce any practical ways for doing time management and stress management, since I am so stressed nowadays. .

لیلا | October 9, 2008 6:50 PM

می:
حرفت رو متوجه هستم اما فکر نمیکنم درست منظور من رو متوجه شدی. من فکر میکنم خلاقیت با بی تعهدی فکری متفاوته. یا حداقل برداشت من اینه.

برداشتی که من داشته ام اینه که استرس=مدیریت بد. و در اکثر اوقات یا مدیریت زمان بد یا مدیریت پول بد.

در مورد اینکه باید بتونی از مدیرت بالاتر فکر کنی درسته. اما اول باید بتونی در سطح مدیرت و در سطحی که مدیرت ازت انتظار داره فکر کنی و بعد بتونی برای خودت جا باز کنی (هم از نظر سازمانی که اون بهت فضا بده و هم از نظر فکری که خودت فضا داشته باشی) که بتونی خلاقیت به خرج بدی. من تجربه شخصیم اینه که انبوهی از کارهای نیمه انجام داده برای آدم احساس بی عرصگی و استرس به وچود میاره و فشار محیط رو روی آدم زیاد میکنه و ممکنه در ظاهر آدم وقت بیشتری داشته باشه اما این لیست کارهای نیمه تمام دائم داره توی ذهن میچرخه و وقت و انرژی ذهنی برای خلاقیت نمیگذاره.

یک چیز دیگه هم که باز تجربه خودمه اینه که خوراک خلاقیت دانشه. و کسب دانش در هز زمینه نیاز به ممارست و تلاش و تکرار داره. دانش رو در چهارچوب میشه به دست آورد و برای به دست آوردنش باید برنامه ریزی کرد. حتی اگر دانش رقصیدن باشه که ظاهرا همه اش مفرجه.

حالا باز اگر مدیری بالای سر آدمه که آدم بیخودیه چاره اش ولنگاری کاری نیست. چاره اینه که در کوتاه مدت الویت ها رو جابجا کرد و در دراز مدت مدیری پیدا کرد که دیدش با دید تو در خطوط کلی کار همگون باشه.

اگر منظورت رو بد متوجه شدم بگو راچع بهش صحبت کینم.

anar | October 9, 2008 10:29 PM

لیلا من پست بعدی رو راجع به این مطلب خواهم نوشت.

Anonymous | October 9, 2008 10:33 PM

بسیار ممنون از فیدبک! البته خانم دکتر من با شما حرف زیاد دارم توی این مقوله. کاش از یکی ادیتورهای فارسی استفاده کنی و یک ورژن دیگه از این نوشته بزاری. حس می کنم مقوله ی خوبیه برای بحث - حداقل برای من خیلی جالبه.

k1-35 | October 10, 2008 3:35 AM

PhD never brings us KHERAD. I have seen so many professors with out any KHERAD. I don't know how they have captured their certificate. they also have not enugh knowledge of their expert.

they are really alians

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