Author: Catalina-Paula

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GrIND Event- Thinks with Shrinks tackle Impostor Syndrome

Hope you are staying warm and cozy. We are writing to let you know about our next event, a workshop with Alex Lenzen and Paris Palmer tackling Imposter syndrome!

This event will focus on specific issues that grad students face, particularly imposter syndrome and lack of productivity, and will feature interactive activities and Q&A. To ensure the topics broached by our guests are relevant to you, please fill in this short RSVP form and let us know what questions you have that you’d like answered during the event. This is completely anonymous, and there will also be a Q&A part during the event to ask your questions live if you want to. Our two guests are the organizers of the mental health zoomcast, Thinks with Shrinks, where they use their expertise to discuss subjects such as stress, motivation, productivity and many more. If you haven’t already, we suggest you give it a listen.

Date: Feb 11th

Time: 4-5 pm

RSVP and anonymous questions : https://forms.gle/gY9Ln79Rhy5nLTC96

Zoom link : here (Passcode 333093)

 

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Free App for Meditation, Relaxation & More – Headspace

About Headspace:
Headspace uses clinically-researched techniques for meditation to improve mindfulness, stress levels, sleep patterns and more. They have sessions that are concentrated around different focuses, which you get to personalize based on what you currently feel that you need.

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The app is free and has a lot of good free content, with the premium version users having access to the full library that Headspace offers.

Check out this video on how the app works (and its cute graphics!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS76mK58urI

More about the app, and the science behind it, on their website: https://www.headspace.com/science

Feel free to try it out, let us know how it went!
GrIND has offered interested students access to the premium subscription (April 2020). If you are seeing this at a later time and interested, feel free to contact us to see what we can do to help out with this!
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Free App to Help with Setting and Keeping Track of Goals and Habits

Today we want to introduce Habitica, a useful free app that allows you to “gamify your life”.

How it Works:

When you install the app, you get a level 1 character with basically no perks, weak stats etc. In order to level up and be able to buy gear to improve your stats, you set things you are trying to accomplish under 3 categories: Habits, Dailies and To Dos. You can set the level of difficulty and due dates, as well as reminders, and every time you accomplish one of them you get XP ​and gold coins.

The better you do in real life about this habits or tasks, the more your little character will grow into a great adventurer.
Also, you can use this as a collab tool, join challenges from others, or make a group of friends and challenge each other to hold yourselves accountable and have fun in the process.