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

I talk about the challenges of dealing with the real world data. I talk about how much of the data that is presented is quite sanitized, and we should start being more honest with data that is dirty.

I think about the effect of systems and various different groupings of cohorts. If you look at the general effect of this generally it often has a large impact on outcomes of the actors of interest.

I talk about why most people actually suck. And I discuss the underlying factors that are driving the phenomenon where 80% of any population are not going to perform like the top 20% of the population.

encourage you to create your own game of life so that you can be the hero in your own story. Figure out a project that you would love to work on and pursue that particular project. Remember to keep the project big enough so that you can do this over your lifetime.

I talk about how I can wish for somebody to come help me with the R3ciprocity project, so that I can do my job better. The problem is is nobody’s coming to the rescue, so I have to do it myself

being an innovator means that you have to be a non-conformist. You have to think about to what degree you’re not gonna conform and by how much. You also have to think about what aspects in your life you’re not gonna conform to the norms. Further, you never quite know whether you’re actually doing the right thing. The only thing that I can say is that you have to practice being an innovator in managing the motions that you feel when you’re doing that.

I discuss the problem of trying to figure out when is the appropriate time to take money out of your investments. It’s not clearer in terms of when you should do that.

I discuss how coming up with scientific findings is not necessarily about coming up with facts, but is much more about storytelling. You have to come up with a convincing story that other people will believe, and to get through gate keepers within science.

it’s important to remember that when you have young kids at home to give yourself some leeway. Stop being so difficult on yourself. These moments are the things that you can remember. I looked back and I remember the number of times and I actually snuggled with my kids compared to the number of times I was in my office. I’ll never remember the times have been my office.

I talk about whether we should be aspirational education and think about reforms to education that might improve being more aspirational. I use the example of take your kid to work day to think about existing systematic biases that might exist.