{"id":5402,"date":"2024-02-27T16:41:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T21:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=5402"},"modified":"2024-02-27T18:11:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T23:11:18","slug":"personal-self-satisfaction-is-the-death-of-the-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/27\/personal-self-satisfaction-is-the-death-of-the-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jacques Monod<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science.<\/p>Jacques Monod (New Scientist<\/em> 17 Jun 1976)<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

See also: Le Mythe de Sisyphe<\/a> (thx LBT)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some attributes that can help ensure success for graduate students:
– Restlessness<\/strong>. Always striving for more. Having fun in the process.
– Error checking<\/strong>. Re-reading and re-analyzing data. Searching for their own mistakes. Reviewing their own productivity and making changes in processes or habits when needed.
– Reading a lot<\/strong>. Both for research, and for recreation.
– Self-teaching.<\/strong> Autonomous learning. Figuring out how to make something work.
– Taking notes.<\/strong> Detailed notes. Organized. And referring back to them later. If it wasn’t written it down, it was goofing off. If it was documented, then it was science.
– Humility.<\/strong> Willingness to ask questions that might be foolish.
– Compassion.<\/strong> Caring about other people and trying to see things from their side and work with them. Surrounding themselves with good people. Keeping distance from insecure or destructive people.
– Getting to done.<\/strong> Being a finisher. Finding a way to make things happen and get to a landmark. Scientists like to obsess about things, and they’re not easily satisfied, but the successful ones, despite those tendencies, figure out how to put out good products.
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<\/a>Jacques Monod<\/p>\n

In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony…<\/p>\n

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