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Self-Confidence

Posts in this category discuss self-confidence and the practices that build and maintain your confidence.

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Treating each day as a new opportunity

Posted on May 21, 2025 by Jo VanEvery

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Treating each day as a new opportunity “My challenge is treating each day like a new opportunity to get things done without letting the perceived inefficiencies of the previous cast a dark cloud over a new working day.” – Planning Class participant (2023) If this is also your challenge, […]

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Imperfect notes for perfectionists

Posted on November 20, 2024 by Jeanette Hannaford

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Imperfect notes for perfectionists One of the Academic Writing Studio team told me about a great book they’d read that they thought might be helpful for many of our people. Jeanette has been part of the team for a long time. Perfectionism is something many academics struggle with. You […]

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Motivating yourself to finish the damned book!

Posted on October 23, 2024 by Jo VanEvery

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Motivating yourself to finish the damned book Do you have a book project that’s been in progress for a long time? You are not alone. Over the years I’ve helped several mid to late career scholars who are weighted down by the unfinished projects they have lying around. Like […]

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Creating A Satisfying Academic Career – Part 2

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Jo VanEvery

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Creating A Satisfying Academic Career This post is Part 2 of a series on Creating a Satisfying Academic Career. In Part 1, I introduced the idea of “creating” a career based on the opportunities available and provided some reflection prompts to help you figure out what is important to […]

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Creating A Satisfying Academic Career – Part 1

Posted on September 13, 2024 by Jo VanEvery

 Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Creating A Satisfying Academic Career It is not an exaggeration to describe the current context in higher education as dystopian. Whether you are already employed in academia, permanently or precariously, or whether you are seeking academic employment, the situation is distressing. Is it possible to have a satisfying […]

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Spotlight On: Confidence

Posted on March 22, 2024 by Jo VanEvery

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Spotlight On: Confidence Confidence is another thing a lot of people struggle with. It is related to Imposter Syndrome but is not quite the same thing. And, like Imposter Syndrome, lack of confidence isn’t an issue that will ever go away completely. It’s normal to lack confidence (sometimes). It’s […]

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F**k Confidence. Settle into ease instead.

Posted on March 20, 2024 by Jamie Pei

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · F**k Confidence. Settle into ease instead. Although confidence is bandied about as an individual, empowering thing, it’s also an insidious neoliberal, capitalist, patriarchal ideal that can often be more harmful than not. It tells us that: ‘you just have to be confident!’ ‘just do it!” ‘just be yourself!” ‘fake […]

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On research and emotional entanglement

Posted on December 20, 2023 by Liz Gloyn

A Note from Jo: This post has been repubished from Liz Gloyn’s own blog site, because it is relevant to the struggles I know my clients and Studio members unfortunately go through on a regular basis.  Term has finished, the Christmas tree is up, and I’ve got a week before annual leave kicks in… so […]

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Autism & Imposter Syndrome

Posted on November 1, 2023 by Daniel Sohege

A note from Jo: On 28 October 2023 Daniel Sohege posted a thread on Bluesky and Twitter about what they call “Autistic Imposter Syndrome”. I recognized much of what they described from conversations with an autistic friend. They kindly agreed to have me turn it into a guest post here. I’ve kept their name for […]

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Survivor guilt & imposter syndrome: When you are one of the lucky few

Posted on September 20, 2023 by Jo VanEvery

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide · Survivor guilt & imposter syndrome: When you are one of the lucky few If there is one thing most of my clients, newsletter readers, and social media followers are familiar with, it’s gremlins shouting “Imposter!” at unhelpful moments. I use the term “gremlins” to personify the voices in your […]

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Who are you writing for?

Posted on March 22, 2023 by Jo VanEvery

Jo VanEvery, Academic Career Guide  | Who are you writing for? One thing that’s difficult about writing a book is its scope. There is a lot of material to organize. It’s too big to hold in your head. It’s hard to maintain your motivation when you won’t see a finished product for a long time. […]

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What is Real Writing anyway?

Posted on July 20, 2022 by Jo VanEvery

At the beginning of every planning class in the Academic Writing Studio, I ask participants a set of questions about what they did in the previous period. We focus on writing, and I ask questions about how much time they protected, what they worked on, and how those projects advanced. I do this in the monthly […]

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