What separates GREAT PhD students from good students? Do you have them?

In this video, I am going to talk about what separates great PhD students from good ones.
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▼ ▽ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - The Holy Trinity
3:25- Willingness to try new things
4:51 - Honesty about what is working
6:26 - Finding balance for them
9:09 - Disciplined actions
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[@davidjohnbunnell561]

Your trinity comments effectively communicated ideas I have had without the coherent narrative to fully understand. Thanks.

[@BelmoubarikMohamed]

we have almost the same profile and career path!!!. Great to listen to someone like you. keep going. I like your honesty and wish you all the best.

[@pbjoyce8993]

Thank you for your advice! Really appreciate that 🙂

[@jenstolboom5656]

I applied for a PhD position in Amsterdam and I really love your videos, They helped me understand the academic system and how to thrive in it. Ur a hero, thank you!

[@ready2makechange]

Great work as usual!

[@billwong6077]

And this also applies on how to be a great university faculty in my opinion!

[@Drganguli]

Generally great PhD students want to get into academia after their PhD and so are ready to put in the extra work to get more journal papers, attend conferences, increase their network and citations and get recommendations and prestigious postdocs

[@rksmiths2773]

This drive for marketing has destroyed academic science. Imagine Isaac Newton or Galileo marketing their research.

[@rksmiths2773]

@Valencia Lomeli What you said is true, and maybe especially true for Galileo as he did get into trouble. But all these do not apply to Newton. Isaac Newton was an eccentric, he denied the trinity and yes he kept that secret. But he was a poor teacher, he kept his secret lab and was not bothered by useless admin that academics have to do these days, from what I remember he did not have to ordain as a priest either. And we would have never had Principia had Edmond Halley not asked him to write it. And from what I remember, he was not under pressure to publish regularly, although when he did publish things he got into a feud with Leibniz, and he tried very hard to market himself as the inventor of calculus. It would be very hard for someone like Newton to succeed now.
Same with Darwin, imagine him writing a grant proposal, a proposal that would undermine the dominant religion of that time. Let me see an academic writing a proposal to question climate change. William Shockley actually applied for a grant to teach his controversial course on Eugenics and he was denied.
Yes, academics back then had to market themselves, and yes the world is better now. But increasingly academia is becoming less about science and more about admin, politics, and marketing. The politics now is resembling that of medieval times when academics had to stroke egos of people in charge.

[@RanchoPsycho]

@@rksmiths2773 You making me think twice about my Phd , I have been offered a phd studentship , seeing these comments here really puts me off.

[@noufalhamdan8286]

Thank you Andy :)

[@NileNetworks]

"He published like there was no tomorrow" this sentence can kill me!🤣🤣

[@reachingforthesun]

Yeah, buddy, favorite pose lol

[@AlaKareem]

I want you to be my supervisor 😊
Please 🙏🙏🙏

[@janswanton3631]

Great advice, Andy. Thanks.
Flying the flag for the liberal arts here. You really help me understand what is needed to succeed. My goal is not to change the world, but promote debate. Before you can make a difference, you have to think through what difference you want to make and why.

[@maths_nerd]

Guess I can never be a great PhD candidate. I am passionate about pure mathematics particularly abstract algebra and I have no interest whether it can be applied to general benefits of mankind. My work will not even be understood by most of people.

[@VladyslavKL]

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[@michaelsy4448]

I think you missed how important a graduate degree in education is nowadays. Esp in educ technology. Great PhDs have great teaching and comm skills, too!

[@RanchoPsycho]

This is actually scary , as my background is psychology and my supervisor has a phd in education - I am sure i will be proper grilled !

[@Krasbin]

Well, from my (admittedly very limited) experiences working with people engaged in education research: they are often the people who are not that good at teaching, but hope to get better at it by getting a degree in it and researching it.

[@ianinaharms]

Publish like there is no tomorrow 🤣