If you solve the Navier Stokes equations, you'll give a couple interviews at some local media and then keep working in other problems. The director of your lab

If you solve the Navier Stokes equations, you'll give a couple interviews at some local media and then keep working in other problems. The director of your lab will not make a career for himself talking about your achievment. Some exposure is of course necessary, but when it becomes the main driving force it turns ridiculous.