http://silverclipboard.com/time-management-tips/how-public-and-humiliating-failure-leads-to-success/ Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:28:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://silverclipboard.com/time-management-tips/how-public-and-humiliating-failure-leads-to-success/comment-page-1/#comment-13842 Phil Wilson Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:11:15 +0000 http://silverclipboard.com/?p=88#comment-13842 My PhD supervisor in London had a similar approach. For each of his PhD students he set aside an hour a week for a one-to-one talk. An hour is a long time to fill with your recent progress, problems you've encountered, explanations of tentative results, analysis of what you've been reading, and so on. It was daunting and occasionally terrifying, but almost all of his students finished within the three years standard for a British PhD, in contrast to the students of some of his colleagues. They finished because they were scared of looking stupid in front of him - even though he was the gentlest and least critical academic you could imagine. My PhD supervisor in London had a similar approach. For each of his PhD students he set aside an hour a week for a one-to-one talk. An hour is a long time to fill with your recent progress, problems you’ve encountered, explanations of tentative results, analysis of what you’ve been reading, and so on. It was daunting and occasionally terrifying, but almost all of his students finished within the three years standard for a British PhD, in contrast to the students of some of his colleagues. They finished because they were scared of looking stupid in front of him – even though he was the gentlest and least critical academic you could imagine.

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