BONUS: Ten lessons I learned about doing PhDs by playing Stardew Valley

12/26/22 • 21 min

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Even if you've never played Stardew Valley before, you will still love this episode! I will take you through ten important lessons to succeed in your PhD, using tenuous Stardew metaphors to explain them! Enjoy!
(Please note you may prefer to watch this on YouTube here https://youtu.be/WZU6dXoxhLg so you can see gameplay too)

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The PhD Life Coach - BONUS: Ten lessons I learned about doing PhDs by playing Stardew Valley

Transcript

Hello and welcome to this special bonus episode of the PhD Life Coach, where I'm going to be telling you the 10 lessons I learned playing Stardew Valley that I think will help you in your PhD. Now, if you've never played Stardew Valley, don't like commute games, don't switch off. There's still going to be tons of value for you here, and you might even find a new game to play.

If you love Stardew Valley, you're going see a lot of familiar ideas and think about them in a way that I think y