When your viva is finished, after the celebrations and congratulations, when you can breathe, take a few minutes to reflect:
- How did I succeed?
- What can I build on?
- What can I do now?
Your PhD might be over, more or less, but there’s still a way for you to go. So reflect, take time to explore how you got where you are, what you can do and what you could do.
When you finish a PhD you are necessarily talented: there’s no other way you could get this far by being lucky.
This chapter of the story is over. What’s next?
