That sounds both systematic and disciplined! I rarely got close to my limits simply because I couldn't focus that long without getting distracted. (Result: Qui

That sounds both systematic and disciplined! I rarely got close to my limits simply because I couldn't focus that long without getting distracted. (Result: Quit after undergraduate, got a job, was happier with that than academia, but I admire the discipline it takes to get through proper PhD research and even more, a career in research.) (Other result: I learned that I'm much more socially motivated than internally, so group projects and collaborative environments are much more my style than most of the work I found in school. If research had been more collaborative and had more hackathons, maybe I would have stuck with it longer.)