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

I talk about how entrepreneurship and innovation is absolutely crazy making. A matter how hard you try out some thing, it always feels like you’re digging hole. The only thing that I can do is suggest just keep going and dig deeper hole.

I talk about how to pay off your home by the time that you’re 40, and it requires a tremendous amount of consistency and dedication. You have to continuously make a lot of decisions that minimize your expenses and maximize your revenue that’s coming in.

I am becoming increasingly more disillusioned with academia. I understand how it all works and to be part of a research team, however if you’re not part of a research team you’re never going to make it matter how much work that you put in.

The two biggest irritations of having ADHD is forgetting about events, and forgetting peoples names.

remember that metrics are almost always wrong, and even when you spend a great deal of time trying to make them better, they’re often way off the mark. Base your actions and just grinding away, or just being you.

and talk about how you create a product or organization that has raving fans. The idea is that you simply need to be intentional towards building products such that it has raving fans. It’s not going to happen on its own. Being intentional over a long time actually does create the product or organization that has raving fans.

It is important to think about the incentives that occur in science. If you actually want to change the behavior of scientist, you need to focus on the financial incentives behind science itself. The validity of scientific research is a function of the financial incentives that are available to them.

I give some important lessons of how to do new product launches very simply and easily. The goal is to minimize the cost and time of development. Remember you do not need to spend a lot of money on a new product.

I talk about how science is really about writing and not necessarily about science since you think it is. If you love writing and or believe yourself to be a journalist, and science is a great career. To put it in perspective the expectation is to write 10 to 15 pages a day. In normal journal publication will take around 500 pages by the time it actually gets published.

I stress the importance of simplicity with every research article that you write. If it’s not simple and straightforward it’s never gonna be published. It’s gotta be so simple that you think that it’s just as obvious.