Today, I'm thrilled to welcome a new author to A Brilliant Mind: Sanjin Kacevac. Sanjin is a psychology student and a productivity freak. In this post, he recounts the incredible personal story that led him...
Jazzing up the holidays
Happy holidays, dear beloved reader! Before diving headfirst into the Christmas frenzy, I want to wish you the most fantabulous, splendiferous, and chillaxtastic end of the year. 2023 has been a good year for me,...
12 ways to motivate yourself to start writing
Every scientist knows that writing is a priority task, or at least that it should be. Yet many Ph.D. students, postdocs, and professors (yes, professors!) struggle with writing and keep on putting it off. This...
The opening of your paper: The Indiana Jones method
Do you sometimes watch the first few minutes of a movie to see if you like it? People do the same thing with your scientific articles: They read the first few sentences, i.e., the opening,...
Why you should choose a journal before conducting the research
Do you want to publish a lot and in top journals? Don’t we all? Then, you need to think about the paper you're going to write and the journal where you'll submit it before you...
Storytelling and the thread of scientific papers
As scientists, we're not just researchers; we're also storytellers. Every paper we write is a narrative, taking readers on a journey through our research question, hypotheses, our methods, our findings, and their implications. Yet, all...