science career

 

If you’ve ever wondered why “success” is so hard to come by, this blog post is for you.  If you’re already as successful as you want to be, then you probably don’t need to keep reading (and congratulate yourself that you’re in the minority of about 1% of all people!).

What is success?  That totally depends on you.  But if you’re in an academic career, that often means getting a PhD, getting some publications, doing a post-doc, getting some more publications, ...(read more)

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Morgan explores her own experience with fear and the impact it had on her life, then talks about the importance of banishing it to do truly great work.

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For many years I wandered through my career, jumping on various opportunities as they came along, but without a real “direction” for where I was going.

I was fortunate in that I made some good choices – getting into bioinformatics early on, and then getting into proteomics early on – before the fields became popular. But, despite the outward success this has brought to me, I’ve ...(read more)

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If you don’t buy my argument from Episode V about the idea that to be truly successful, you need to think “proactive” rather than “reactive”, let’s consider one more idea from Covey’s book.

At the beginning he talks about “production” (P) versus “production capacity” (PC).

Let’s use the analogy of an automobile. The product (P) of an automobile is high speed movement – traveling miles quickly.

The ...(read more)

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