Successful advancement on a dissertation requires consistent daily time-blocking or an intense, focused period of work away from all other responsibilities and distractions.

“I'm going to take a onewe holiday and I'm going to take myself to a random place that is away from all distractions and all friends and I'm going to spend Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday only working on the PHD and not allowing myself to do anything else”

Academic research is most useful when it goes beyond pure theory to provide empirical evidence and interrogates counterveiling forces.

“Go in study it deeply come out and then synthesize and write it very simply.”