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Using the translation from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863456 > If you begin to feel misundersto

Using the translation from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863456 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863456 > If you begin to feel misunderstood, with no one recognizing the importance of your work and the genius of your ideas, seek for medical treatment or change jobs. Learning to write more clearly, to promote your work, or to be patient would be better next steps than getting medical treatment or switching jobs. I have encountered this attitude before (that medical treatment or quitting should be an immediate response to fairly minor issues in research), which I wrote off as an anomaly, but perhaps it's not as uncommon as I thought...

not2b 5y ago
He's talking about the very common phenomenon of thinking you are a scientist when you're really just a crank (or you've become one). And this has to be read in the context of all of the previous points, which are about being an effective researcher or communicator. If truly no one recognizes "the importance of your work and the genius of your ideas", I suppose it's possible that the whole world is wrong and you're a misunderstood genius, but it's more likely that your work is not as valuable as you think it is and it is time to do something else.