Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work

Re:Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work by Goronmon on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @04:22PM (#23251324)

I met so many brilliant people at UCLA and in my professional career that had this twinge of impostor syndrome. What ended up happening is their less-brilliant but much-louder colleagues always got the promotions and always got the funding.

How do you know whether you are part of the "brilliant" versus "less brilliant" groups you've mentioned here?

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Re:Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work by enriquto on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:23PM (#23251966)

> How do you know whether you are part of the "brilliant" versus "less brilliant" groups you've mentioned here?

If you spend more than 10% of your time dealing with emails instead of doing science, then you are probably on the "less" side.

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Re:Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work by pvaldes on Friday May 22, 2020 @04:27AM (#23269834)

Scientists time counting does not work like that. At the end what you discovered will help people forever, how may time you spend to achieve it, is not (or at least shouldn't be) so relevant.

And a lot of the time spent in science is about painfully compiling info. Emailing people can have a lot of sense in that part.

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