Oddly effective ways to increase writing motivation | For Thesis, Research Papers and more

yeah tastefull routine brought me 2 sizes plus...

Thanks very much

Thanks Andy I writing my masters thesis now and my a supervisor does not help me whish hinders my progress in the thesis, does not respond to my e-mails. This is very frustrating, but the presence of your channel helped me very much. I am grateful.

So good!

Whenever I see you videos I feel like I am talking my friend or colleague on science aspects.... ❤

I feel I can write with pen on a notebook better. This way my ideas gets generated in a free flowing manner. With my laptop, I get overwhelmed with number of words and pages. Of course, I need to fair out everything on my system later though. Double the work, but it works for me

Who's watching this and has a paper to write?

I didn't choose engineering to be writing so much. I'm writing more than a literature major. :(

Cue. Habit. Reward.; Habit stacking; Some of these concepts that are helpful are from James Clear’s book Atomic Habits. The pomodoro method is also extremely helpful

Affirmation works because you raise your self-esteem, you see more beauty in the world so you make yourself happier and therefore more productive. It's simply a way to raise your endrophins and dopamine. Others might say that you then feed yourself with positive energy. When you say to yourself, "today is such a beautiful day, it makes you want to live," it will be easier to work than when you say: "what a nightmare day, I don't want anything." Affirmations put you in a good mood and a good mood makes it easier to work. I, for example, can't write when I'm depressed or stressed. I always have to be in a good mood to write.

One of the things a wise professor once told me was: " the worse draft that you'll ever write is the one you don't". This simple phrase motivates me to write something every day even if it's complete trash. It makes me feel better that a start is all I need to avoid the worse possible outcome.

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Something that is touched on here is the importance of knowing how you work.

If you tend to get overwhelmed and push deadlines back, working every day is probably your best mode of progress.

But if you are like me, and work in fits and spurts of 3-5 hours no problem, then I would focus more on using that hour a day to review literature or to help break down your writting task into clear objectives for when you finally do start writting.

Either way, I ultimately agree with the idea that staying engaged with your research on a nearly daily basis (with breaks on the weekends) will surely help you write.

Finally ....the only logical and well structured video that motivated me to start writing...the other videos are ridiculous

I enjoyed your style. Thank you.

Bravo, Andy

I’m currently writing my biochemistry PhD thesis and hearing the ‘each day your best is different’ was needed!! I felt like I was losing steam and I was starting to stress!

Are you also a Ph.D ?

yeah tell me about the chocolate... defo a no-no go to. I ended up with high cholesterol and hypertension crisis by revving myself up on coca cola and chocolate. Not to mention having to shed the extra kilos after

Thank you very much for sharing. I'm in the 'less motivated' stage to continue my writing. Maybe because the condition of the cafe where I write is quite noisy, my favorite seat for writing has been taken by the other visitor hahaha, and I see all of the readings on internet looks disgusting. Even though 2 days ago, I was writing really flow.. and ON FIRE, but today.. feel sucks and hard to get inspirations