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| doctorants:en:problems [2022/08/19 14:25] – [Prendre des pauses] translation from french mbourgais | doctorants:en:problems [2022/10/07 08:05] (Version actuelle) – translation from the french for "purchase of equipment" mbourgais |
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| A break starts at 5 minutes and can last for a weekend. It is then up to you, depending on your personal functioning, to decide how to organize yourself. These breaks must be moments when you completely disconnect from your current subject. The idea is not to force yourself into a subject that seems complex to you, but to let time do its work. So, rather than getting stuck on a problem and telling yourself that you will solve it by thinking about it one or two hours more intensely, take a break. It is also quite possible that the solution or the understanding of the subject will appear during this break. | A break starts at 5 minutes and can last for a weekend. It is then up to you, depending on your personal functioning, to decide how to organize yourself. These breaks must be moments when you completely disconnect from your current subject. The idea is not to force yourself into a subject that seems complex to you, but to let time do its work. So, rather than getting stuck on a problem and telling yourself that you will solve it by thinking about it one or two hours more intensely, take a break. It is also quite possible that the solution or the understanding of the subject will appear during this break. |
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| ===== La technique du canard ===== | ===== The duck technique ===== |
| Derrière ce conseil au nom bien étrange se trouve une technique très pratique et pas bien compliquée pour se sortir très souvent de blocages professionnels (scientifiques ou techniques) : verbaliser ses problèmes. En clair, ne restez pas tout seul avec le problème sur lequel vous butez en ce moment, parlez-en autour de vous. On parle de la technique du canard parce que l'objectif reste de verbaliser à voix haute votre problème sans nécéssairement avoir bbesoin d'un interlocuteur pouvant pvous donner la réponse ; vous pouvez donc tout à fait parler avec un canard, cela vous aidera à vous débloquer. Pour avoir l'air moins idiot, vous pouvez aussi le faire avec un ou une collègue, sans pour autant attendre de réponse précise. | Behind this very oddly named advice is a very practical and not very complicated technique to get out of professional (scientific or technical) blockages: verbalize your problems. In other words, don't stay alone with the problem you're struggling with at the moment, talk about it around you. We talk about the duck technique because the objective is to verbalize your problem without necessarily needing someone to give you the answer; you can therefore talk with a duck, that will help you to unblock yourself. To look less stupid, you can also do it with a colleague, without expecting a precise answer. |
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| Derrière cette technique tout à fait sérieuse et qui a fait ses preuves en dépit de son nom qui ressemble à une blague, il y a sutout le conseil plus général de prendre le temps de parler et d'expliquer vos problèmes sans rester bloqué dedans tête la première. Le fait d'expliquer à haute voix votre soucis va vous obliger à reprendre toutes les étapes de votre raisonnement depuis le début en les détaillant, ce qui aidera votre cerveau à entrevoir les endroits où votre raisonnement est tombé dan une impasse, et donc à sortir de vos problèmes. | Besides this very serious technique, which has been proven to work despite its joke-like name, is the more general advice to take the time to talk and explain your problems without getting stuck in them head first. Explaining your problem out loud will force you to go back to the beginning of your reasoning and detail it, which will help your brain to see where your reasoning has hit a dead end, and thus to get out of your problem. |
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| | ===== Purchase of equipment ===== |
| | If you need special equipment during your thesis (other than the scientific equipment necessary for your work), you can see if the lab can pay for at least part of it. For example a new keyboard, a new mouse, a deck for your laptop, a better desk chair, an external hard drive, etc. To do this, first discuss it with your supervisor to see if there is money available for this in your thesis funding. If you have the green light from your supervisor, contact your secretariat who will give you the procedure to follow. |
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