How to stay calm on days of no progress?

Asked Apr 07 '22 at 03:56

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I'm a math PhD student working in Pure Mathematics. I guess, everybody is familiar with those days when you make very little progress or no progress at all. As the title suggests, I would like to know how do you stay calm and relaxed on those days?

Every time I have such days, it makes me very anxious and I feel like I wasted my time. It makes me feel very unproductive.

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Have you seen these question? 1. How should I deal with becoming discouraged as a graduate student?, 2. Why is my mood dictated so much by how well my research is going? – Anyon Apr 07 '22 at 04:43
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"Every time I have such days, it makes me very anxious and I feel like I wasted my time". You didn't: http://vigeland.caltech.edu/ist4/lectures/Poincare%20Reflections.pdf – Alessandro Della Corte Apr 07 '22 at 06:48

How to stay calm on days of no progress?

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