PODCAST: Being a PhD Researcher and an Entrepreneur With Jessica Steinberg

Originally published on April 1, 2021

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David Mendes writes: Jessica’s pearls of wisdom:

“One thing I’ve started with at the center is a 3-hour reading-writing-working-studying session. It’s hree sessions of 45 minutes of uninterrupted work, and then we have 15 minutes of break. And this is a common practice for people in general, it’s not just for students. But if you can dedicate and block out that amount of time, knowing all of your notofications are off, your phone is in another room, your tab of social media are forgotten about – just totally non-distracted 45 minutes – what we have found from people who are joining these sessions is those three hours are the most productive hours of the day, if not the week, if it’s the only session that they join.”

“To my point earlier about a personal board of directors and how you can really fill your space with peolpe that you’re learning from, that are challenging you – if LinkedIn is a space to do that, by all means, take  advantage of the resources that are in front fo you. And I don’t think an age or a gender should limit that. It’s just a platform and it’s how you choose to go about using it.”