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What do you mean by cannot stop doing research? I certainly haven't discovered anything new, but I love learning new things, reading about ideas, coming up with
by InkCanon 2y ago
What do you mean by cannot stop doing research? I certainly haven't discovered anything new, but I love learning new things, reading about ideas, coming up with them.
- lordnacho 2y agoWhy not just study a bunch of different things to Master's level then? Learning something genuinely new seems like it has a much lower return to effort.
- InkCanon 2y agoGood question. IMO 1) There's a kind of "hard" learning you're learning a fixed, structured way from a textbook. 2) There's a kind of "soft" learning which is transmission of knowledge, which happens a lot more face to face when you're working together. 3) Then there's a kind of research learning, where you're doing something new, usually with collaborators. The second and third are really best done in certain environments like research or good companies
- enum 2y agoYou'll do great. This will eventually turn into new discoveries if you keep at it.
- InkCanon 2y agoThat is the hope!
- sega_sai 2y agoI meant that you tend to spend free time on that as opposed to treating it like 9 to 5 job. and again it is important that if you do that, it is because you just want to see what comes out of your experiment/learn a new thing etc rather than because you have to publish or is forced by your advisor.
- InkCanon 2y agoI see. I think I definitely lean towards that.