As a graduate student, you're likely incredibly familiar with the concept of delayed gratification- the process of putting off until later what you might otherwise enjoy now. Research shows that toddlers who are able to delay gratification actually turn out, most often, to be more successful. And, certainly, good things come to those who wait.
Except where the dissertation is concerned. Yet, so many of you have resigned yourself to the process taking 'forever'. You keep working and working and working, but make no appreciable progress. Or, otherwise, you keep putting off your progress for another day. Another week. Another month. More years.
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