Interlude: Mindset, Authorship, and Responsibility

Words are powerful. And one little three-letter word has the power to immediately shift your mindset and give you control in accomplishing any goal you set.

And that little word is yet.

How can this simple word be so powerful?

When you have a limiting belief, tack the word yet onto the end.

"I can't write well...yet."

"I haven't published the paper...yet."

"My proposal hasn't been funded...yet."

Adding the word yet transforms the limiting belief into a motivational affirmation.

Just because you haven't reached the goal doesn't mean that it's not going to happen. If you keep working toward that goal, then it just hasn't happened yet.

Now onto this week's round-up...

💌 Round-up

💻 From My Desk

How to Cultivate a Growth-Mindset in Your Writing​
People with a fixed mindset believe their qualities are carved in stone. But people with a growth mindset believe their qualities can be cultivated through effort, strategy, and support. Fortunately, you have the power to turn a fixed mindset into a growth mindset to support your success with writing.

📆 Upcoming

Decoding Research Authorship: Guidelines, Strategies, and Practical Tools for Collaboration – August 12, 2024, 11 am Pacific Time
Authorship challenges are common in scientific and medical publishing. And they can be avoided with awareness, planning, and collaboration. During this free webinar, you'll learn what qualifies as authorship, what order to list authors, and what to do when a contributor does not qualify for authorship. You'll also walk away with a strategy and practical tool to support collaboration and prevent authorship conflicts among your team. A recording will be available for a limited time after the event.
​Register now for free

👓 Reading

“Towards Responsible Publishing”: Findings from a global stakeholder consultation​
This study surveyed thousands of researchers to learn their thoughts on the transformative changes to the scholarly communication system proposed in cOAlition. A few highlights that I found interesting include:

• Researchers tend to prioritize reading papers based on the reputation of a journal, the reputation of the authors, and whether the journal is indexed.

• Researchers believed that preprint posting improves accessibility and visibility, early access to new research, transparency, and faster dissemination and feedback.

• Researchers viewed open peer review as a way to enhance transparency, but they preferred an anonymous reviewer report.

​Practices and Barriers in Developing and Disseminating Plain-Language Resources Reporting Medical Research Information: A Scoping Review​
“Our research provides a detailed overview of the preferences of patients and general public audiences when accessing medical research information. As anticipated, these audiences struggle with jargon, unstructured and text-heavy content, or lack of information in a language they are comfortable with. Their searches are often hindered by paywalled content or the variability in nomenclature and dissemination channels of PLRs [plain-language resources]. Audiences appear to trust independent sources such as websites of drug regulators and patient advocacy groups regarding medical information they find online.”

🖥️ Watching

I Before E​
In this Instagram Reel, stage-door-johnny shares a clever skit that disproves the saying of "I before E except after C."

✅ Action

What is the most common limiting belief you have about your writing? On a sticky note, rephrase that belief into a positive affirmation. Then put that sticky note in a place you will see every time you sit down to write.

Thank you so much for reading.

Warmly,

Crystal