Author: Greg
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2019 WISPA Award Entries
It should come as no surprise that I’m a big fan of women’s sport in both my personal and professional life. The Women in Sport Photo Action Awards bring this interest together with my hobby of photography. Here are my three entries for this year’s contest, each of which were previously shared in my Instagram […]
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A Big Lobster For A Long Weekend
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) A big lobster for a long weekend 😎
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Feeling Stronger Than Ever
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Nothing in my life – apart from knowing and loving The Girl – has been as positively transformational as undertaking a PhD. I’ve come to enjoy the hardest moments the most, because I almost always come out the other side feeling stronger than ever. […]
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“Pain Is Temporary – PhD Is Forever”
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) I’ve been thinking fondly of my time in Brisbane last July. In between: lots and lots of writing up findings. Almost there. The new slogan of our cohort is “pain is temporary – PhD is forever.” 😏
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Pots Simmering On My Cognitive Stovetop
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) I have too many thoughts competing for my attention at the moment. Too much input and not enough output has left quite a few pots simmering on my cognitive stovetop. One more week and I can do a mental detox. Can’t wait.
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A Cloudy Day On The Great Ocean Road
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) A cloudy day on the Great Ocean Road last year. I was solo road tripping from Melbourne to Adelaide and stopped in Portland, Victoria for some food before driving up to the cliff side lookout of the Bridgewater Blowholes. It started pouring rain just […]
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You Wanted Me To Be Right
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) “Sometimes you sound like one of those precocious characters in movies who are wise beyond their years.” “But I’m not always right.” “You have been so far.” “I’ve been wrong plenty of times. If you thought I wasn’t wrong in those instances, it’s because […]
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Moving On…
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Moving on…
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Total Clarity
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Yesterday I finished the hard part of my ‘pre’ data collection (this photo is, in fact, part of that data). For the first time in my PhD candidature, I can see the finish line with total clarity. 30 October, y’all.
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An Unusually Long Series Of Small Steps
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Doing a PhD seems big when considered in the aggregate, but it’s actually just an unusually long series of small steps. One step at a time tends to get the job done. Many of those small moments are thresholds, the crossing of which being […]