Limits

A PhD is all about limits.

• There’s a limit to how much you could do.
• There’s a limit to how many questions you could ask and answer.
• There’s a limit to how many papers you could read.
• There’s a limit to how long you can spend writing your thesis.
• There’s a limit to how much time you can invest in preparing for your viva.

You can’t do everything you want. There will always be other things you could do.

You have a choice. You can focus on everything that didn’t happen; you can try to speculate and account for all of the maybes and possibles…

…or you could focus on your limits and where they’ve lead you.

You’ve got this far through your research journey by having limits. Keep going.