How often do you submit? When do you submit versus getting papers or preliminary data out the door? Where do you submit to?
Those are some very important questions to answer, that many do not think about often enough.
Imperfect action in your research career, and especially in your grants, is vital. I used to completely screw this up, trying to take “perfect action” and getting…
Your reviewer makes a snap judgement within a few seconds of opening up your proposal to read. That snap judgement will heavily bias the remainder…
Just observe a debate between any two human beings. You’ll notice that it doesn’t matter how many facts one side marshalls against the other. Just slamming the opponent with facts and data leads to deeper entrenchment. This often happens with grants, too. Here’s a post on how to avoid that…
You and your reviewer have very different perspectives. If you don’t understand the difference and take great care to ameliorate it, you will have far…