Scientific research is fundamental to advancing civilization and helping people globally to solve the most critical problems, from medicine to materials, from brain science to physics, and much beyond. This is only possible when scientists have access to the best tools of the time to conduct scientific research, including having access to AI-based tools.
If you want a rare life, you have to be delusional. Doubt can enter your mind, and it can sound reasonable, but if you entertain it too much it will slowly drag you down into stagnation. I'd rather reap the lesson from massive failure than do nothing because it's not "realistic."
No matter how carefully I plan, unforseen circumstances always surface and I might skip a day or four.
This is the point where most people start questioning their life..
Regardless of how many days you've skipped, RESUME.
Get back on track and plan against such circumstances.
Progress is measured by how well you're moving towards your goals.
So you must have a goal to start with. The main goal should then be split into subgoals with action points.
If you ever feel stuck, consult the vision board and act accordingly. That's how to measure progress.
Champions emerge from challenge.
If challenge didn't exist, there would be no way to measure progress.
Cristiano Ronaldo, Steph Curry, and Novak Djokovic are champions in sport due the series of challenges they've overcome.
Avoiding challenge is indirectly avoiding progress.
Every country has an energy. And that energy rewires you whether you notice it or not. People move to Japan and become minimal. People move to Mexico and their entire relationship with time softens. People move to New York and suddenly they can't sit still. Your personality is far more malleable than you think. We treat it like something fixed, but new surroundings give you new defaults. New pace. New habits. New values absorbed through proximity instead of effort. You're not just the average of the 5 people closest to you. You're the average of the 5 places, the 5 routines, and the 5 inputs you're exposed to most. Your commute shapes you. The weather shapes you. Every space you occupy is voting on who you become. That's why I believe choosing where you live is one of the most important decisions you'll ever make. More important than your job title. Maybe more important than your five-year plan. Because the place shapes the plan. The place shapes your energy, your habits, your relationships, your default state. Get the place right and half of the other decisions start making themselves. Get it wrong and you'll fight yourself every day.
What matters is not education or money, but your persistence and the intensity of your desire to learn; that failures, mistakes, and conflicts are often the best education of all; and how true creativity and mastery emerge from all this.
There's an old idea that says a man is tested three times before he earns anything worth having. The first test takes what he loves. The second test takes his confidence. The third test makes him wait with no proof that it's coming. Most men fail the third one. Not because they're weak. Because patience with no guarantee is the hardest thing a human being can do. If you're in the waiting room right now, don't move. Don't panic. Just hold.
Think about it. Without bias and without sentiment. Time spent worrying should be directed at solving the problem.
Your thoughts should be on solving the problem.
Not everybody will, but you must BE SOLUTION-ORIENTED.
The tap broke, you unintentionally deleted a draft, water spilled on a gadget, loads of assignment and not enough time, whatever the challenge may be, the best phrase to utter in that moment is: “how do I solve this?”
Be careful of popular opinion. Resist the urge to believe popular opinion statements. Most people who utter it do so out of ignorance.
Have you asked, "why is popular opinion popular?" Think. Question those opinions.