The Playmobil penguins again, this time pictured outside the management school at Lancaster, where I’ve been discussing my PhD progress, and attending a short session on the whys and woes of trying to get to the end. Right now, I feel more like going round the bend than seeing the end….
I think the doctoral process is a test of your ability not to give up when you head off down a blind alley.
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Chris,
Just keep plugging away. I’ve been writing-up since 16th May 2011, and still got 3 to 4 months to go. I feel a lot of learning is in the scale of the tasks. To get through them I have found I simply have to regularly ditch methods I have utilised successfully in the past. They do not work on the doctorate type of tasks. So I have to acquire a new mind-set and methods. Onwards up upwards. Regards Howard