what i am glad i did – and did not do

What I am glad I did – and did not do.

Kathleen Vohs, University of Minnesota

Same advice I would give scholars at my stage…

Glad to have done

Work your ass off.Connect, don’t network.Be engaged, be present.

Seek brutal feedback.Be interesting (Gray and Wegner, 2013 PPS)

Be ready to kill anything – exps, findings, paragraphs.

Find a topic that you love.

Write it down

Stop writing at an easy place.

Never trash others’ work in your writing.

Justify each new study.

Cite classic or most impactful works.

Read broadly (esp for methods)

Email is not work

Follow individual people’s careers, recent papers.

Take others’ perspective– in your writing

Take others’ perspective– when interacting with

coauthors

Don’t work with crappy collaborators more

than once

The best thing to do to work with a senior collaborator is to bring him or her data. Everyone loves when data fall into your lap!

Approach teaching as a means to figure out how to communicate our findings to people outside of our little academic realm.

You figure out what others want to hear about, and their assumptions.

Check the details —thrice

What we could all do better on

Say no to more projects – writing takes a lot of time and practice is

the only way to get better.

Recognizing that no one has to do anything for you.

Be grateful for all the time that others spend helping

you reach your goals.

Thank You!

Thank You!