The Academic Imperfectionist
By Rebecca Roache
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Jul 9, 2025
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The Academic Imperfectionist combines philosophical analysis and coaching insights to help you dump perfectionism and flourish on your own terms. Your host is Dr Rebecca Roache, a coach and Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of London.
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#133: Academia is just a job!
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May 21, 2026 |
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#132: Backpacks, bias, and your unrealistic summer plans
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May 07, 2026 |
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#131: Your binary thinking is trying to tell you something
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Apr 24, 2026 |
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#130: The bonkers mental gymnastics of your writing anxiety
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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#129: The hidden burden of decision fatigue
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Mar 27, 2026 |
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#128: Professor Katrien Devolder on why you're wrong about laziness
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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#127: Professor Polaris Koi on why self-control is not what you think it is
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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#126: Why you should care about emotional frailty
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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#125: Your moral gerrymandering is hurting you
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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#124: Dr Dana Klisanin on wild willpower and drawing resilience from nature
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Jan 09, 2026 |
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#123: What do you have to brag about?
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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#122: Write it down, make it happen
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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#121: Is your self-improvement self-rejection in disguise?
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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#120: Professor Wendelien van Eerde on the science of procrastination
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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#119: All about coaching
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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#118: The Academic Imperfectionist origin story
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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#117: Intervention for inept time management
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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#116: Procrastination is a bad idea
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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#115: Who cares about achievement?
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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#114: Ego, resentment, and recognition
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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#113: What if you don't have good habits?
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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#112: David Hume and the battle between reason and passion
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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#111: Erving Goffman, Instagram, and the Real You
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May 30, 2025 |
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#110: How to sabbatical like a pro, with Professor Bethany Wilinski
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May 16, 2025 |
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#109: Productivity, golden eggs, and inner critics
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May 02, 2025 |
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#108: Your writing warm-up
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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#107: The problem with your sense of entitlement
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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#106: Do you know how much you can control?
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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#105: Professor John Sellars on how to live like a Stoic
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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#104: Kate Ahl on what academics talk about in therapy
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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#103: Tony Stubblebine (CEO of Medium) on how to find, build, and engage your audience
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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#102: Professor Stephanie Dunson on levelling up your writing process
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Jan 24, 2025 |
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#101: Professors Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea on the absolute basics of doing research
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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#100: What I've learned about perfectionism
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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#99: Hey! What you reading for?
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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#98: Guest interview! Dr Debbie Sorensen on battling burnout
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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#97: When failure of inspiration strikes
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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#96: Guest interview! Dr David Brax on the dangers and inequalities of 'hope labour'
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Oct 18, 2024 |
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#95: The perfectionism-busting power of hobbies
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Oct 04, 2024 |
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#94: Postcard from the Costa del Burnout
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Announcement!
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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#93: Guest interview! Professor Joli Jensen on draining the drama from writing
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Aug 23, 2024 |
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#92: Your writing-anxiety Sliding Doors moment
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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#91: Sartre, 3pm, and writing off writing days
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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#90: The surprising productivity of rest
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Jul 12, 2024 |
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#89: Doubting your willpower is holding you back
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Jun 28, 2024 |
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#88: How to be a quitter
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Jun 14, 2024 |
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#87: You're overlooking your unique value
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May 31, 2024 |
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#86: Every Academic Imperfectionist episode, summarised
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May 17, 2024 |
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#85: The fundamental attribution error is ruining your life
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May 03, 2024 |
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#84: The underappreciated value of waiting for success
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Apr 19, 2024 |
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#83: How to be happy
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Apr 05, 2024 |
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#82: Stop policing yourself
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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#81: Are you trying to live a final draft life?
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Mar 08, 2024 |
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#80: What are you so afraid of?
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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#79: My imperfect but adequate working day
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Feb 09, 2024 |
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#78: Fix your self-compassion with the metaphysics of personal identity (and an Aeropress)
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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#77: Mediocrity is underrated!
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Jan 12, 2024 |
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#76: This is what positive change feels like
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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#75: Your progress tunnel vision
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Nov 24, 2023 |
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#74: When taking on more can energise you
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Nov 10, 2023 |
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#73: How to practise being instead of doing
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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#72: Bend so you don't break: a stress survival guide
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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#71: The best time to write is the worst time to write
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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#70: How to write
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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#69: How to read
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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#68: Plato (and Barbie) on perfection
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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#67: You owe your success to your flaws
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Aug 04, 2023 |
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#66: The only productivity hack you need
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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#65: Reflections on a recent failure
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Jul 07, 2023 |
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#64: Reject work/life balance!
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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#63: In defence of your comfort zone
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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#62: Guilt! Guilt! Guilt!
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May 26, 2023 |
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#61: Your productivity standards are like a 1980s fad diet
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May 12, 2023 |
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#60: Self-acceptance or self-improvement?
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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#59: Hold your nose and do the scary thing
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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#58: When you're doing everything everywhere all at once
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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#57: Understanding your productivity shame
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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#56: You're not weak-willed, according to Socrates
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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#55: Inertia and your overthinking dick brain
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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#54: Soothe the overwhelm with the 1% question
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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#53: When happiness tanks your productivity
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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#52: Hack your fear of failure
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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#51: Is looking after yourself just another thing to fail at?
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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#50: You hate doing it because you think you're doing it wrong
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Dec 02, 2022 |
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#49: Say no to FOMO
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Nov 18, 2022 |
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#48: Stop trying to run a marathon at sprint pace
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Nov 04, 2022 |
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#47: Is your life story dragging you down?
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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#46: How to ace job interviews
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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#45: Consistency is important, but what is it?
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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#44: The idea of 'quiet quitting' is dangerous
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Sep 09, 2022 |
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#43: You don't know how you're feeling
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Aug 26, 2022 |
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#42: Are you waiting for permission?
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Aug 12, 2022 |
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#41: Dealing with uncool emotions: envy, jealousy, resentment
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Jul 29, 2022 |
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#40: Why I took SO BLOODY LONG to write my book
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Jul 15, 2022 |
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#39: 'Thick' ethical concepts and your sneaky inner critic
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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#38: Freud, sublimation, and your toxic attachment to your inner critic
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Jun 17, 2022 |
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#37: You should spend more time thinking about your anxiety
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Jun 03, 2022 |
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#36: What if it doesn't need to be so hard?
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May 20, 2022 |
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#35: Why am I putting off doing that ridiculously undemanding thing?
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May 06, 2022 |
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#34: In praise of half heartedness
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Apr 22, 2022 |
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#33: I'm supposed to be doing what I love - what's gone wrong?
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Apr 01, 2022 |
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#32: You need a mindset audit
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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#31: Hedonism and other paradoxes
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Mar 04, 2022 |
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#30: Rejection stings less when you channel your inner toddler
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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#29: You need to date your career choices, not marry them
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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#28: Moore's paradox: When what you believe about yourself doesn't make sense
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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#27: Your new year resolutions survival guide
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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#26: Why writing is like sleeping
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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#25: You don't know what 'success' means until you know who you are
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Nov 26, 2021 |
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#24: Your inner critic is not a videogame boss
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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#23: The way you're trying to motivate yourself is all wrong
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Oct 29, 2021 |
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#22: Dealing with uncertainty
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Oct 15, 2021 |
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#21: Let's talk about lists, plans, and goals
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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#20: Don't just write it - ferment it!
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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#19: Not writing is an essential part of writing
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Sep 03, 2021 |
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#18: There is no such thing as self-sabotage
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Aug 20, 2021 |
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#17: The importance of wasting your time
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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#16: Stop moving your goalposts
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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#15: Help! I have brain fog!
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Jul 09, 2021 |
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#14: Become your own biggest advocate, with Immanuel Kant
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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#13: How to work as efficiently as you procrastinate
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Jun 11, 2021 |
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#12: Delete your scarcity mindset
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May 28, 2021 |
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#11: Why you have impostor syndrome, and what to do about it: remembering Katherine Hawley
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May 14, 2021 |
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#10: Dealing with your inner reviewer 2
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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#9: Cancel your productivity anxiety
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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#8: The nostalgia illusion
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Apr 02, 2021 |
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#7: How can I flourish in an unjust world?
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Mar 19, 2021 |
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#6: Live the dream!
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Mar 05, 2021 |
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#5: Bitch, do you even dream?
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Feb 19, 2021 |
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#4: How to hack your assertiveness with Aristotle
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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#3: Rage against the positivity
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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#2: But I haven't earned a rest!
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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#1: Toxic gratitude
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Oct 16, 2020 |