Pursuing a PhD 5: Organizing Paper Citations By Color
Organize 365 Podcast
Lisa Woodruff
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🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
During week 4, we talked about how I think in color and how it helps me to learn things faster. When focusing on learning something new, being able to chunk the information into at least 4 color categories as I am learning is really helpful.
I've learned how to add colors into writing my papers to help me remember which journals I am citing, which information is mine, and which information is from different authors.
As I am going through this PhD podcast, I hope that learning how you organize in one phase of life can inform and help you in the next phase of life.
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| 0:00.0 | school is in session. Well, it is for me anyway. I know you may not be on a higher education |
| 0:12.4 | journey, but you are planning for or are in the midst of a shift in how you plan and spend |
| 0:20.0 | your time. I know this because you are an organized 365 podcast listener. Collectively, |
| 0:28.0 | we are all lifelong learners, pursuing the best version of ourselves and putting into action |
| 0:34.6 | the complete organization cycle. Over the next four years, I will share week by week |
| 0:41.4 | what I am continually decluttering to free up my time and space. How I am organizing my |
| 0:47.6 | days, my responsibilities, and my work both seen and unseen as I take captive every minute |
| 0:55.1 | at my discretion to increase my capacity and productivity and pursuit of a PhD in psychology. |
| 1:02.2 | So that I can have a seat at the academic table in the discussion of how we use our homes |
| 1:08.6 | and complete our housework and home organization tasks. Oh, there's the school bell. Let's |
| 1:17.8 | see what I learned this week. So last week, I told you how I tend to think in color. And |
| 1:26.2 | when I put things in color, it really helps me learn information faster. I was shocked |
| 1:32.8 | a few years ago when I was talking with someone about all these different ways that I use |
| 1:37.6 | color in my life to to make shortcuts and to learn information faster. And they said, |
| 1:43.7 | yeah, I don't like colors. It doesn't matter to me. Like, you could change the colors. Like, |
| 1:47.7 | I don't even see them. I was like, what? You don't even see the house that possible. How do |
| 1:54.0 | you not even see them? So everybody has different learning styles. So if you're, if you are not |
| 1:59.7 | color focused, this probably will not help you. But for those of you that are hyper color focused |
| 2:05.1 | like me, this could be a game changer. Okay. So the lectures that I'm in, whether they're recorded |
| 2:11.5 | or live are usually 90 minutes to two and a half hours long, which is a long time. And they |
| 2:16.6 | do not have breaks. Let me just tell you. So I'm fine focusing that long. But often when you get into |
| 2:23.4 | our two hour three, you forget what you learned in the beginning and also everything that I'm learning |
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