I think you need to read the full article, which is really good: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/%7Erobins/YouAndYourResearch.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/%7Erobi

I think you need to read the full article, which is really good: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/%7Erobins/YouAndYourResearch.html http://www.cs.virginia.edu/%7Erobins/YouAndYourResearch.html He talks about Nobel Prize-level research, and justifies what he says with a lot of examples of researchers he worked with, who won Nobel Prizes or similar awards. The original article is really not fluff.