R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness

Don’t assume that a lot is going to happen in one day. Normally, nothing happens.

However, if you just keep taking steps every day good things happen over the long run.

The problem is that it is difficult to keep taking those steps every day, and that’s when most people #quit.

There’s nothing wrong with #quitting, but you do see a tremendous amount of progress if you stick with it.

Keep taking one more step.

You don’t have to specialize in any particular things. We’re a lot more complicated than the perception of that we need to specialize in a particular career. We need to remember that as people we have many identities that are important in many ways in our lives.

I discuss my thoughts about thinking about how much one should consume of your wages and salaries, and as well as how much you say consume of your environment. There is no right answers, and the challenge is figuring out your consumption rate for you. How much you should consume is different for everybody, but it’s far likely that it is much below how much resources you actually generate.

When does it always appreciate the stress that’s involved in teaching in a classroom. You realize how important it is to manage this stress as you teach more often.

Keep putting in one more days worth of work. That’s the name of the game is getting up and doing it despite not feeling like you want to.

When I started my #research career, I was profoundly naïve in how difficult it actually was.

The amount of #rejection that you receive is unbelievably high. The rejection rate is almost at 95% it’s some of the good journals. You believe that those people that are being rejected are not good enough when you start.

You don’t realize is that they’ve worked just as hard and are as intelligent as you.

The amount of pain that you feel with each one of those rejections is very real, and the game is not about how successful you can be but how to manage the pain of those #rejections.

I was also profoundly naïve in believing the number of opportunities that you have outside #academia. When I started, some folks did look at me and asked me how serious I actually was to do research, and I took that as an insult.

However, what you don’t realize is that they’re going through the same struggles and the humor only looking out for you.

Rejection in the career is real, manage that rejection is best as he possibly can.

Don’t celebrate the wins, make sure you’re healthy during the losses.

In order to move ahead, you have to realize that things happen in your past that you’re not OK with. You can’t stop those things have happened in the past, but what you can do is acknowledge that they actually existed, and be open and work through those things.

The Hamburger Rule Of Being #Successful:

Once you’re able to afford going out for a #hamburger and french fries once a week for the rest of your life, you you are extremely successful.

Everything beyond that it’s just gravy and #poutine.

Your life is not going change that much if you get more. You just get fancier gravy and cheese curds on your french fries.

The plate might be a bit fancier in the hamburger delivered in a weird shape with fancy words to describe it.

Realize that almost all of us can be defined by this definition of success.

All of you that don’t feel like you’re successful, you’re buying into the myth that you’re not good enough.

You got this. Keep going no matter what people are telling you.

There’s two types of people in this world. One type is going to give you encouragement—these are rare. The other are going to block you and push you down—these are the majority.

I just want to tell you that you really can make a difference in this world. Everyday you will feel like you get pushed down.

But, you get up and get going every time you get down. Imagine you are a boxer, bobbing and weaving with each punch.

Can you push past the people that are pulling you down?

Can you keep the encouragement ringing from the rare minority in your ears?

Keep moving forward. You got this.

The problem with decision making you never know what the right outcome actually will be until very far down the road. Consequently, you’re never going to know whether what you were doing is correct in the moment. The only thing you could do is go by your gut feel or where you want to be in a few decades from now.