{"id":28936,"date":"2018-10-23T06:05:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T06:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/razak.utm.my\/research\/?p=28936"},"modified":"2018-10-23T06:05:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T06:05:58","slug":"how-to-be-a-successful-researcher-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/razak.utm.my\/research\/2018\/10\/23\/how-to-be-a-successful-researcher-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be a successful researcher-Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rug-clearfix rug-theme--content rug-mb\">\n<div>\n<h3>Tip 4: Increase your clarity of thoughts, part two<\/h3>\n<p>To optimize your concentration levels, it is important that you create an atmosphere that suits you. Jennifer: \u201cMake use of everything that helps you to get into the writing mood; coffee, ginseng, special music \u2013 personally, I benefit from listening to Simeon ten Holt \u2013 or aromatherapy, it doesn\u2019t matter. You could, for example, create your own CD with background music to work to. There\u2019s one condition, however; don\u2019t use it as a way to postpone sitting down to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\" rug-image--left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"js--caption\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rug.nl\/about-us\/news-and-events\/newsletters\/international\/2012\/logopomodoroweb.jpg\" alt=\"Let the pomodoro give you a hand in achieving your goals.\" \/><figcaption>The Pomodoro Technique\u00ae<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"rug-clearfix rug-theme--content rug-mb\">\n<div>\n<h3>Tip 5: The pomodoro technique<\/h3>\n<p>Work with a timer at hand. Jennifer: \u201cI\u2019m a competitive person and I especially like competing with myself. Therefore, when I sit down to write, I set myself a time limit. In twenty-five minutes I must write as many words as I can. After a five minute break, I write for another twenty-five minutes, in which I aim to write even more words than before. This technique, which is called the pomodoro technique (handy apps are available!), is all about dividing your workload in manageable time slots, with five minute breaks in between.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rug-clearfix rug-theme--content rug-mb\">\n<div>\n<h3>Tip 6: Enhance your relationship<\/h3>\n<p>Your relationship with your colleagues, that is. Once you have established a bond with your colleagues, you can read each other\u2019s work and exchange feedback. Jennifer: \u201cI have learned a lot from reading the work of others. And every day, to practice writing, you can write about what you have read. Even if these are only short pieces, you will find that you will get better at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip 4: Increase your clarity of thoughts, part two To optimize your concentration levels, it is important that you create an atmosphere that suits you. Jennifer: \u201cMake use of everything that helps you to get into the writing mood; coffee, ginseng, special music \u2013 personally, I benefit from listening to Simeon ten Holt \u2013 or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.utm.my\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.utm.my\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.utm.my\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.utm.my\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.utm.my\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/razak.utm.my\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/razak.utm.my\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.utm.my\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/razak.utm.my\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}