Four mistakes in my PhD (opens in new tab)

I’m currently having an end-of-PhD crisis, where I keep thinking about what to do next. It’s a good time to slow down and reflect, to avoid repeating the same mistakes. I have made many mistakes during my PhD. Here, I list four major ones I’m currently aware of. Mistake 1: Giving up too late Since childhood, I was told to never give up, stick to it, and I would eventually win. Maybe that’s true, but I definitely took it too far. It took me a while to learn that never giving up is easy; giving...