4. Get better at generalising knowledge and reasoning to new areas. When you get it wrong, look at why. Were you missing a crucial fact? Then how could you hav

4. Get better at generalising knowledge and reasoning to new areas. When you get it wrong, look at why. Were you missing a crucial fact? Then how could you have found that fact out, and other facts like it. Is your reasoning faulty? Get better at reasoning. Did you make an unfounded assumption? Check your assumptions better. Did you ignore something without good reason? Don't. Is their something special about working in this field? Learn that stuff. Are you expected to have background knowledge? Grab some of that. ... I guess that's really a solution to 1 though.