Let’s start with a scary number. The average dropout rates of doctoral students in Australia, the UK, Canada, and the US range somewhere between 30% to 50% (Glorieux et al., 2024). That basically means if two students start a PhD program together, there’s a pretty high chance that only one of them is going to […]

Spotting a faulty way of thinking or a cracked mindset that needs repair is a great start toward improving your quality of life. But let’s be honest, repairing something without knowing what it’s for is like patching cracks in an abandoned warehouse. Sure, the building won’t collapse, but… who cares? If a structure has no

In my last article, I shared how I discovered that motivation, consistency, and discipline wasn’t enough to make profound changes in life and what really mattered was my mindset. Realizing that was only the beginning. The next challenge came in my early thirties when I noticed something troubling. My mindset had cracks. Not the small,

For more than twenty years, I’ve been fascinated by self-help books and motivational speeches. But here’s the twist: motivation alone doesn’t solve everything. My story with motivation began during my early engineering college days. As a first-generation college student, I was fueled by pride and ambition. I wanted to prove, not just to the world,