How Procrastination Is Linked To Imperfection
Imperfect action in your research career, and especially in your grants, is vital. I used to completely screw this up, trying to take “perfect action” and getting…
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Get Your Reviewer “hooked” on your Specific Aims page
Your reviewer makes a snap judgement within a few seconds of opening up your proposal to read. That snap judgement will heavily bias the remainder…
How to write your NIH Approach Section, without overloading yourself or your reviewer
In today’s blog post, I made a short video (< 8 min) for you on the topic of writing the Approach Section of your NIH…
How to Avoid The Frame Clash with Your Reviewer
You and your reviewer have very different perspectives. If you don’t understand the difference and take great care to ameliorate it, you will have far…
How You’re Destroying Your Grants with “Scarcity” Thinking
I recently tried to buy a kayak, and experienced full-bore what it’s like to deal with people who are operating from scarcity. It’s a good story for illustrating what often happens to my research clients who are trying to get grant funding, and struggling….
