Again answering some of you that beat your chests and tell me how the very fear of the degree motivates you. Wrong!! When you use fear it will sharpen your mind for a while and over time it will wear you down. This is not an Army or Marine Corps boot camp event that last 8-10 weeks. This is a long term event lasting years.
Fear techniques are basically using punishers to elicit behavior. There are three effects of punishment and any one can take place. Punishment may stop the ongoing behavior, it may cause the organism to run away or it causes the organism to fight back. All three are not desirable in a doctoral degree.
So it is best to use a series of rewards, stimulus control and periods of rest. Short term rah-rah techniques that pit you against yourself will work for a while. Just some advice that even though you can psych yourself up by visualizing failures and bad outcomes to give yourself some adrenalin. Your body needs rest, rhythm and rewards plus plenty of down time.
An interesting email question that keeps popping up.
Mind your goals,
Dr. Parker
Fear techniques are basically using punishers to elicit behavior. There are three effects of punishment and any one can take place. Punishment may stop the ongoing behavior, it may cause the organism to run away or it causes the organism to fight back. All three are not desirable in a doctoral degree.
So it is best to use a series of rewards, stimulus control and periods of rest. Short term rah-rah techniques that pit you against yourself will work for a while. Just some advice that even though you can psych yourself up by visualizing failures and bad outcomes to give yourself some adrenalin. Your body needs rest, rhythm and rewards plus plenty of down time.
An interesting email question that keeps popping up.
Mind your goals,
Dr. Parker
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