{"id":613,"date":"2016-07-19T17:57:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T17:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labmosphere.com\/?p=613"},"modified":"2016-07-19T17:57:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T17:57:29","slug":"thrish-lab-blog-a-personal-note-on-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labmosphere.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/19\/thrish-lab-blog-a-personal-note-on-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrish Lab Blog – A Personal Note on Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Thrishantha Nanayakkara of King’s College is an incredibly successful researcher who runs a great lab. He also happens to practice Buddhism too. In this incredibly insightful blog post<\/a> for PhD students, he explains how the philosophies of equanimity and responsibility can be applied to a PhD (or any academic career) and therefore find peace within oneself despite the incredible amount of external pressure creating stress and inner turmoil.<\/p>\n

In the post, he describes the difference between achievement and accomplishment as applied to publication in a journal, and how one can use rejection from a journal for learning, growth, and ultimately, satisfaction and peace.<\/p>\n

We at Labmosphere tip our hats to Dr. Nanayakkara, who, despite the pressures of being an academic, finds the time to work on his inner growth and peace and strives to help students do the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Thrishantha Nanayakkara of King’s College is an incredibly successful researcher who runs a great lab. He also happens to practice Buddhism too. In this incredibly insightful blog post for PhD students, he explains how the philosophies of equanimity and responsibility can be applied to a PhD (or any academic career) and therefore find peace … Continue reading Thrish Lab Blog – A Personal Note on Mental Health<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,56,57,58,18],"coauthors":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7z5Ki-9T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":453,"url":"https:\/\/labmosphere.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/01\/mental-health-in-academic-research-a-systematic-problem\/","url_meta":{"origin":613,"position":0},"title":"Mental Health in Academic Research – A Systematic Problem","date":"June 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\"In recent years, a crisis has been building in academia,\" says this post on Polygeia. 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