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

Remember that you can mimic other people, and figure out how to craft your own story. Think about how you can be more of yourself by using other people as a role model.

I talk about how I stumbled in to being a online therapist for Innovators, Academics, Entrepreneurs.

I discuss how we’re all the same, and we simply have to manage the uncertainty that we feel. How we deal with anxiety and uncertainty predicts where we’ll end up going.

It’s just flat out wrong to focus on scientific research productivity. Your goal is to simply just put in the work, and ignore scientific research productivity. If we train future scientist just to focus on the numbers, there is no incentive for them to do good work.

In my view scientific research productivity is a banal construct, and there is no, or minimal, direct relationship between action and outcomes in scientific research.

Instead, we need to encourage people to just put in the work regardless of the outcome they receive. We need to encourage people to be good people, and remember why they actually got into science in the first place. You become a scientist because you were a curious kid not because you want to get one more publication.

I talk about the culture of research, and what it’s like in the academic game. Remember that you’re a good person and that you are remarkable. Keep those in mind as you’re going about your day.

Have confidence in who you are, and always help out other people when given the opportunity.

I talk about social influence and content creation. I discussed through what it means to be a social influencer, and why there is a considerable amount of sales people considering themselves as social influencers, when they really are not.

I talk about why it’s important to provide a tremendous amount of content online. The goal is to build a reputation overtime, and use some of the factors or characteristics of the Internet. Three of the biggest factors is the fact that information storage is inexpensive, there are compound effects, and heterogeneous preferences across people.

How come business professors don’t use their empirical findings for investment strategies in financial markets? I suggest that the world is a lot more complicated than the simplistic models that we use for our research findings. Our goal is for generalization and not prediction.

My message is always consistent. It is just keeping the steps forward. Keep moving towards where you want to go, no matter what is going on in your life.

It’s the consistency that it’s going to get you to where you need to go. Nothing else.

I talk about how it’s very difficult to figure out how to make money quickly. However if you focus on your ha and skill over the long-term, and constantly build your competence in that area you can do extremely well.

for some reason, my days are almost always completely filled, no matter how I plan my day. I am always rushing to get my work done, and no matter how much rushing that I do, there’s always more work to be done at the end of the day.

It’s an interesting phenomenon where we fill our day with work, no matter what you actually are accomplishing throughout the day. There is always a mad rush to complete your work at the end of the day.