A protective daily psychological protocol designed for the high-pressure world of academia. This checklist guides researchers through 'cognitive unhooking' from funding anxieties, enforces strict boundaries between lab and life, and emphasizes tracking the physiological toll of rigorous intellectual work.
Perform a 'Cognitive Unhooking': explicitly write down 3 anxieties about peer review or funding into the Notes Checklist and mentally leave them there.
Repeats: dailyChallenge the most severe anxiety you wrote down with 2 pieces of purely objective, empirical evidence.
Repeats: dailyLog any stress-induced physical symptoms and your macros & micros in the Body tab to monitor the physiological toll of your research.
Repeats: daily