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hello I'm Tara Rison and I'm the dean of
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Graduate Studies at Charles Darwin
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University Welcome to outrider 45 how to
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prepare for a PhD program what a
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brilliant suggestion and this suggestion
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comes from the legendary
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abar akar's been a great new colleague
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that I've met in the last year or so and
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abbar gave me this request and I'll read
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it to you it's a great one quote to be
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proactive what can I do effectively
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before coming into a PhD program I kind
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of want to save my future I end of quote
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brilliant now what a great request
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because this is a proactive rather than
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reactive request so let's save the
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future with akar which sort of sounds
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like this great superhero film so I'm
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thrilled to be a part of this so let's
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save the future and we're doing that by
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getting you prepared for a PhD program
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and you've often heard me say that I can
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tell if a student is going to complete a
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PhD successfully in three years if they
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work hard in the first year if their
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first year is successful they're going
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to get home but I'm actually going to
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enlarge on my argument there actually
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the quick and successful PhD is often
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determined in the three months before a
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student enrolls so we're going to talk a
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little bit about this period before
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enrollment so the audience for today's
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outrider is obviously our wonderful
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students about to start we are thrilled
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welcome to your journey I hope it's a
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fantastic one so we're getting you sort
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of organized to set you up for Success
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terrific but there's also a second group
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that is a very large group and important
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group this is a group where Something's
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Happened they've gone on a leave of
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absence they've suspended from from
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their studies they've gone part-time
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fulltime fulltime part-time or indeed
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they I won't use the word fail but they
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left a PhD program they are Tred from a
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PhD program and they've decided to go
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again and they want to understand what
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went wrong and what they can do to make
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it right that's an important group and I
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see you and I hear you it's a very large
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group let's do this for you so what I'm
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trying to do today is configure a moment
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where we can regroup we can be honest
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and we can construct a framework of
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success that's what I want for you so
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today has a diagnostic purpose we're
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back to tus 10 tips to get you organized
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for success in a PhD program now the
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reading this week there some yeah so
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many there's like thousands thousands of
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blogs and sort of journalistic articles
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about why I was successful so once more
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data point of one we love our data
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points of one not but I've looked very
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strongly also at the referee literature
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also University websites what they
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recommend to their students to be
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successful but I have focused on the
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refereed literature particularly after
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covid because our universities are
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different now and to be frank with you
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as someone who's been a Dean through
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much of this period uh our PHD programs
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are very different now and that's not
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always a good thing can I say we may do
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a later outrider on that so let's get to
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Tara 10 tip tip number
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one let's build relation relationships
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preparing for a PhD first requires that
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you organize your relationships now the
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first and most important relationship is
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with your supervisor now at CDU we have
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a supervisory Charter I'll provide a
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link to a document for you so you can
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use it at your leisure now what the
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charter does is it provides a framework
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for what would be quite uncomfortable
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conversations about relationships and
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bridges and boundaries and how this
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relation relationship is going to occur
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through the supervision okay so it
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provides a scaffold for a a difficult
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conversation so you need to ask your
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supervisor how they configure success
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how they think about feedback and most
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importantly right at the start what is
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effective communication for you both
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because if your supervisor has this
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notion that they're able to phone you at
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any point or text you at any point like
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you are a drug dealer and that's not
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exactly how you want to communicate you
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need to speak those words so we need to
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be very clear now between a student and
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a supervisor and we have to agree on the
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platforms for communication and you also
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need to start building your
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relationships with your future
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colleagues that might be the crew in the
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lab the crew you're going to go on field
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work with but if you're an individual
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researcher like a lot of our disciplines
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then don't fret about that most
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universities have a series of social
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more formal groups that exist alongside
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your candidature so for example at CDU
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we have digital office hours and right
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club we open them up for the world so
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wherever you are if you're thinking of
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getting into a PhD program you can just
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sort of sit in that space you can
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communicate you can ask questions you
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can answer but it's a way to socialize
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you into a doctoral space and most
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universities these days have and I'll
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use the cliche but it is important safe
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spaces for students to ask questions to
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provide answers and get yourself
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comfortable with the informal learning
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The Meta learning that is part of doing
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research look up also this is crucial
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research seminars that your University
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or other universities are running this
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is the gift in many ways of Co because
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whenever we run a seminar these days we
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also happen to record it and we often
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load it up into what is the University's
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YouTube channel we do that at CDU we do
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that for our current students who maybe
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have caring responsibilities or in
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full-time work and they can look at that
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seminar at their Leisure the gift for
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you as a prospective student is all this
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incredible material exists for listen
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for you to listen to and watch at your
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leisure so again to just Orient yourself
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into the languages the ontologies of
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doctoral education but then of course
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there are also your personal
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relationships you've got to get
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organized your relationship with your
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partner with your parents with your kids
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with your friends these have to be
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organized as early as possible you've
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heard me say so often it takes a village
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to graduate a PhD student I still agree
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with myself but can I say it also takes
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some very robust conversations at the
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start to ensure that you begin with the
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end in mind you begin with success if
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your partner
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if your partner doesn't like the idea of
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you doing a
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PhD you are not going to do a PhD so
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have these robust conversations at the
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start two yeah think about your working
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environment your University May allocate
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you a working environment so a shared
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office for example and you need to think
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about how am I going to set up this
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space but also if it is a shared office
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again you've got to have these very
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honest conversations with the people
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that you're sharing your office with
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right we all know what happens often if
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someone likes really quiet working time
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the way Synergy works is they're paired
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with someone who loves to talk bringing
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people into the office talking coffee
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Etc so there's got to be an agreement
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between all members of the office about
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how the work will be conducted remember
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if you're in a work environment you're
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in a group environment you've got to
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express you've got to communicate at
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your needs rather than just sort of seee
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with anger at the start say right how
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are we going to organize this space how
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are we going to respect each other's way
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of doing research say the questions that
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overtly now it's great if you have the
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opportunity for a home office even if it
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is simply your kitchen table now as you
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might see my work office at CDU is very
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much a Consulting office I don't do any
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research there I don't write reports
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there it's not a writing or a a research
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office really I just see people in that
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office and sadly I can't video stuff
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there you very really see me videoing
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the office because it's on a corridor
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and it's quite loud so it just means
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that office has particular functions and
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I need another space to do like the
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actual work and so you know as most of
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you know I've been living in temporary
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accommodation for 2 and a half years now
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all my staff is in storage I'm living
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out of two suitcases so what I would say
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to you as an old person who's been doing
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research being an academic for 30 years
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if I'd waited for the perfect research
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space in those 30 years I would never
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have produced a book or an article I
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have managed and I'm proud of myself for
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doing this I have managed to create
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research develop research in Dreadful
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unstable difficult environments so what
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I'd say to you is do feel confident in
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okay so you're in temporary
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accommodation you're setting your
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computer computer up on a dining room
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table do that that's how I've done the
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bulk of my research just get organized
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and look right at the moment as you can
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see I got a desk I got a chair I've got
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a computer and that's it and that's my
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research life and career so try and
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think about your best working
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environment or indeed how you can make
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the best of the situation that you're in
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you must organize your life to write you
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must organize your life to create
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research and this is where you do this
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reflexive work before you have enrolled
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you get yourself organized now
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three read early read often
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read I judge
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students hell I judge
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people uh by their reading
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behaviors I do I'm sorry but wow I do I
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do you need to have a really good sense
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of the research in your area how are you
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going to determine the research Gap how
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are you going to determine your sock
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your significant original contribution
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to knowledge if you haven't actually
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read the field so get books get articles
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on methodology get really really recent
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stuff that's incredibly important get
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those Google Scholar alerts working for
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you work out your 10 most important
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Scholars get Google alerts on them work
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out your 10 most important Concepts or
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tropes hello get Google Scholar alerts
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on them you see we learn to read by
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reading we gain a vocabulary and most
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importantly we learn the shape of
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debates we can start to learn to follow
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an argument and then of course we can
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develop our own so get in the habit of
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reading every day please read every day
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it's such a blessing it's such a
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privilege to read the words of other
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people because what reading does is it
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challenges our
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ideas it challenges our ideas in the
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culture it's evidence so if we got
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opinion or Vibe let me tell you what I'm
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feeling not too bothered what you're
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feeling evidence this is research
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reading is a gift that we give ourselves
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every single day the difference between
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the students who succeed and the
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students who fail is the caliber the
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scope and scale of the reading full stop
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four right early right often
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right very few things frighten me more
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in a doctoral program than when a
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student says all I've got to do is write
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up this is the equivalent of saying you
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know what tomorrow morning I'm going to
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get up
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and I'm going to walk to the
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Moon ah
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great that's not how you do it WR early
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right often right constantly right right
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right before you get started get in the
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habit of writing every single day you
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may start with you know writing your
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motivations what Drew you to a PhD
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program that's fine just getting into
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the vibe of writing but you need to
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quite quickly start moving to writing
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about the
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interpretations of the research that you
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are enacting now you may decide to write
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a blog through a PhD millions of
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students around the world have and the
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research does show colleagues to be
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frank the students who have a journal or
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a Blog through the PHD have a greater
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chance of being successful and that's
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been studied particularly in the
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Scandinavian countries the reason those
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students tend to be successful
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is they're reflecting on the PHD while
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they're doing it now I'm not a great
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Journal writer to be honest with you but
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there's no doubt that writing about your
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reading is incredibly productive so what
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I do for example is I take very very
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good notes from what I read every day
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but then when I finish a book in
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particular I go to Goodreads Goodreads
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which is a great little site and I write
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a sort of summary and View and Vibe on
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what I've just read so I've done a meta
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interpret ation of the note taking and
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the research that I've read holds me
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accountable gives it a short review lets
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me go a bit matter it also keeps you
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honest too so the great thing about
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blogs and journaling and even good reads
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is you've got accountability to the
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reading that you've enacted five
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information literacy and academic
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literacy are the foundations of a
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successful PhD program reading and
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writing skills are crucial
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and we have to learn them we are not
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born we don't come out of the
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vagina reading and writing I wish we did
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but we have to learn how to do it but
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academic literacy information literacy
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can save us so much time and yet we talk
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about it so rarely I think it was
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linhard who described information
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literacy as the quote neglected
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essential skill end of quote brilliant
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now I recommend that every single
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student about to go into a PhD program
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enroll in an information literacy course
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seriously enroll in an information
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literacy course there are some great
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mukes on information literacy and I
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checked last week Ed X is currently
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listing 45 courses on information
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literacy from amazing universities all
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around the world do one of them but also
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visit your institutional library page
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often they have a YouTube site as well
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these days and see the information
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literacy programs that are available
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from your Librarians Librarians can save
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you months hell years in your PhD learn
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about databases learn about software
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learn about interfaces and most
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importantly spend quality time in Google
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Scholar Google
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scholar in my life has saved me tens of
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thousands of hours it allows me with
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precision and with speed to locate
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outstanding research from around the
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world not located in Europe and North
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America although respect my colleagues
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in Europe and North America but Google
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Scholar allows me to enact properly
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International research from some of the
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greatest Scholars around the world who
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don't happen to live in North America or
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in Europe it is remarkable to me that we
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still have students that don't know how
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to use Google Scholar so about once
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every two days I have a student come
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into my office and say oh tar there's no
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literature on my field I sit them down
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we go to my computer we go to Google
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Scholar I say right and of course I've
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just met them right so I don't know
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their research field I said right give
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me three key scholars in your field and
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five terms five Concepts click click
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click click click click the research
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published since
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2020 and there's 45 th000 refereed
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articles so supposed from a field where
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there's
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nothing there it is okay what happens
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what I think is holding students back
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from using Google Scholar well is a
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strong vocabulary and knowing the key
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scholars in the field and if you can
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just enhance your vocabulary your tropes
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a bit more and get the get the big names
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get the names names names that will help
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you enormously in Google Scholar
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therefore enact the profound expertise
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from your Librarians learn about
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databases learn about Google Scholar six
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start with the end in mind read
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completed phds now the PHD is a very
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unusual form of assessment
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okay it's probably one of the only times
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in your life and I've been trying to
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think of others but it's probably one of
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the only except the Olympics the only
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time in your life where one object is
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being
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assessed and that that object is
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examined by people that you don't know
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that are not too bothered about what
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happens here they're interested in the
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caliber of your research so what I would
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advise and it will change your life is
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please before you start a PhD read a
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completed PhD seriously read lots of
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them find your discipline go to Google
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Scholar and read completed phds sit down
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read it and that's how you learn how a
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PhD is structured and the diversity of
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ways in which a PhD is structured but
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also go to your University in our case
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CDU go to our University and look at the
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policies and procedures for higher
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degree examination they are sitting
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there for you to read that is what is
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going to be sent to your examiners so
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why wouldn't you at the start of your
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doctorate have a look at the policies
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and procedures that are going to conf
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figure the examination of it it's there
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it's public read it look at how a PhD is
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examined and what that does is that
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brings so much more information back to
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your control make sure you understand
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what is examined what is this
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object what does the thesis look like
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what does the examiner read and then
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please talk about examination with
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people like me Deans our research
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examination officers we love we love
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talking about examination it's my
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favorite Topic in the universe so ask us
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and we will love to talk about that with
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you so don't sit and wonder oh I wonder
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what's happening ask us we're excited
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about
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examination okay seven develop your
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expertise in teaching and learning I
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know this seems a weird one let me tell
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you while we're here there's no doubt
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that casual teaching budgets in our
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universities are declining in fact our
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budgets in universities are declining
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but it is important to learn how to
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teach and learn how you learn and learn
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how others learn because all of a sudden
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an opportunity will come up during the
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PHD where you'll have a chance to teach
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and you need to say yes to that
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opportunity so you need to prepare
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yourself and part of the preparation
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into a doctoral program is looking into
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some professional development in
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teaching so you at its most basic how to
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lecture how to run a tutorial how to run
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a seminar how to do online learning
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management systems okay all of that is
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important and there are plenty of short
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courses on LinkedIn there's some courses
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on academia.edu tons of mukes so come in
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to your doctoral program having just a
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little bit of teaching and learning
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expertise in your back pocket because
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you will use it
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eight motivation
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matters m motivation is the fuel of a
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successful
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PhD without motivation you will not
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finish this degree full stop so write
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answers to the question why am I doing
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this why am I doing a PhD get really
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good answers to that answering this
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question will allow you also to see the
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challenges that you may confront the
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gaps in your understanding your fears
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your vulnerabilities your worries it'll
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also allow you to do a bit of a skills
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needs analysis so this is what I'd like
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to do but I can't do that yet that
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knowledge is crucial I get my students
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to fill in as you know their PHD setup
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document I've got a wonderful student
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starting next week and she's doing that
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work right now for our first meeting on
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Tuesday so it's exciting so she's taking
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a whole week filling in that PhD setup
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document and we will talk about it in
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full in our first meeting because what
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that document does does is it moves you
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forward from wanting to do a PhD to
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having the skills and abilities to
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actually enroll and succeed at it
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nine time to open up an academic
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CV Now open up an academic CV you may
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have a CV you may have one of those
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Dreadful resumés that people are doing
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at the moment you know like a picture of
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you in the corner and you know your
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interests you know I like hockey and
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walking along the beach on some Sunday
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mornings you know those sort of rumes
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well that's over girlfriend this what is
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that about what we're doing now is an
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academic CV so this is the moment where
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you construct it and this is a living
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breathing document that you are going to
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touch and open and enhance every single
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week now I still at my age work on my CV
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every single Sunday morning and that
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allows me to reflect okay what have I
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done this week what have I not done this
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week what skills would I like to develop
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the CV is a an accountability measure
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for my growth as a human and a scholar
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so create new headings in your CV and
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work to flesh out those headings and
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just to get you started you might want
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headings like for example your
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qualifications articles book chapters
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conferences poster presentations
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consultancy professional development
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Community engagement there's just a few
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headings there's there's hundreds of
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them you could choose but just start and
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treat them as an aspirational heading
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and start to achieve things and get that
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sense of achievement that every Sunday
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morning you can add something to your
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CV 10 do the reflection
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work I want you to write down four
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headings on a piece of paper for me so I
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want a heading and then a Gap a heading
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and a gap four times
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here are the four headings for you how
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do I like to give and receive
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feedback what frightens
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me what gives me
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confidence and for what saps my
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confidence now I want you to sit with a
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cup of coffee with this bed or these
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pieces of paper and fill out the answers
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to those questions because what what
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you're doing is you're enacting a really
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deep diagnostic of your
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life we must not be so
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frightened that we can't understand our
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fears we've got to feel the fear and do
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it anyway move through the fear to
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understand our
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fears and if you don't do this work
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you're unprepared for the PHD because
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this is a frightening experience working
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in international higher education at the
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moment is a truly daily frightening
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experience I need you strong I need you
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focused I need you clear so get yourself
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personally and professionally organized
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and prepared for this PhD now after
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you've answered those four questions
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that is a great scaffold to your
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selfawareness your
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self-actualization and one other great
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way to do this is read the experience of
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other PhD students so put in PhD student
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blogs into Google I did that last week
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and there are 23 million returns so it's
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plenty of material for you to read
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immerse yourself into the experience of
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others stop thinking about yourself as a
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data set of one real problem in doctoral
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Education team start to read the
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experiences of others and learn from
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them if there's any advice finally that
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I would offer you all
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is to recognize the difference recognize
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that a PhD is very very different from
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any other degree you will do and I've
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seen so many students have so many
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problems and leave the program if they
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just assume that a PhD is like a
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master's or a PhD is like an honors or
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I've done a Capstone and I enjoyed it
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therefore the PHD will be just like that
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wrong wrong this degree is is completely
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different from the other degrees that
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exist in our universities it is
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regulated it is governed very very
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differently so go into a PhD knowing
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that it is different and enjoy the
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differences experience the differences
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understand the differences so akba thank
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you so much for this suggestion I loved
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writing this one and it has been amazing
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to get to know you in the last year or
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so you take care mate and I wish you all
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love light and peace
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to