R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness

Most things are really slow and you can’t change that. Many things in life are simply a slow step-by-step process that you can’t hurry up. There’s no system or processed, just slow work overtime. If you come into life, realizing there’s a certain slowness to it you often make a lot better choices. You can’t rush anything, and you will know that you eventually get there.

how many people can you get to feel happy inside? What might that look like if you work with the premise that you are going to try to make other people, feel happy, and your self feel happy with his much of your energy as possible. Why don’t we create an experiment in your life where you go about doing that. Can you affect many people as possible in as deep of way as possible? What are simple tool...

Every project that is meaningful to you will result at some point where you lose faith in yourself. Losing faith is a fundamental and important part of “doing good work.” Just know that if you are losing faith that it’s natural. It likely means that you’re on the right path. Keep going when it does not feel fun anymore.

I worry about our lack of understanding of the day-to-day in the business world. We tend to discount things that are ordinary, and that are representative of real people doing real things. Much of the business scholarship focuses on large multinational, corporations, and we seem to think that, much of the real world is not important. We think things like mergers and acquisitions are more important...

Take advantage of the little time that you have. That means taking care of yourself, spending time with family, and looking for moments to work. My algo is different than most. I try to maximize self-forgiveness. I know I will be guilty for something every day. I won’t be a good enough scholar, teacher, parent, and husband. I ask myself to forgive myself each time that I mess up. It will happen. I...

Constantly putting in the work often get you further along then thinking about putting in the work. Where are you end up in life often is dictated more from the actions that you do on a regular basis and your endowments, then your actual strategy and choices that you make. If you want to change your life, get an education, and keep working regardless of what others tell you. Ignore that little per...

Our predictions are often very poor, and we have to make do with these poor predictions. Knowing that we’re not gonna be good at making good predictions of the future, the only thing that you can do is have patience and empathy for others.

Focus on the fact that you’re doing “something,” rather than any of the outcomes that you’re ever going to get from it. Focusing on “outcomes,” almost always recipes for “crazy making.” If you focus on your actions, you can control that. You will be much more at peace, when you realize you’re actually doing the actions you should be doing.

explain some of the challenges of why we often don’t see some businesses being represented in business research. We need to more openly talk about these factors.

Why can’t you? I have learned that most of us talk ourselves out of great things. Before you start, you say “ that would be a great idea, but…” Then you never do it. I spend much of my time telling people to “screw the world.” Much of the reason is for you to have enough courage in your own mind to be able to say “I can.” Somebody at some point has discouraged you and got you thinking that you are...

Do Cringey Things. It is only after a while that you realize that they are not cringey after all.

I am convinced that there’s zero to negligible correlation between effort in outcomes in academia. This allows me to focus on other things that give me pleasure, such as spending time with family and wishing people well.

Many moments you wake up, and you have a very negative view of the world. I want you to remind yourself, and just how fortunate that we actually are. Destitute #poverty has been on the decline for a long time, and more and more people are getting access to water around the world. Many of us are getting access to technologies and education that we wouldn’t of had access to even a few decades ago. D...

Most people do not understand the #fragile nature of data. I often don’t think it’s on the data analyst or author’s side that we need to worry about. We need to be more concerned about how editors, reviewers, and the general public understand data. I am more surprised by “perfect results” than messy results. Perfect rarely—if ever—happens. We need to get people away from thinking about perfect res...

Two distinguished scholars, Dr. David Maslach and Professor Karim Lakhani, engage in a dynamic conversation about innovation, science, and mentorship. Maslach introduces his R3ciprocity Project, aimed at revolutionizing scientific collaboration through a peer-to-peer sharing model. Lakhani, a renowned Harvard Business School professor, delves into his research on the science of science, exploring...

Many days you’re not going to feel good, and you can’t change those days and can’t change your environment that makes you feel like that very quickly. What you can do is pause, detach, and get back up again. It’s one step every day. Nothing else. No one is coming. It’s on YOU. Take a bit of a pause, grab a coffee, and get going one more day. Today might be a bit better.

“Are you serious? Are you serious about #research?” This question is seared into my brain, and still rings in my ears. I remember one of my advisors, asking me if “I was serious.” The truth is, I didn’t really understand what he meant, but I said yes. Doing research is a lifelong commitment, and it’s almost a religious affair. I can almost always spot people that are not taking the religion seriou...

Learn how to attach from things you want. It’s not a matter of whether you can get them, it’s whether you should get them right now.

We need more people telling others to have patience, be nice, and don’t take #shortcuts. Most role models today are focused on doing things quickly, cheaply, and trying to screw over other people. Let’s reverse this trend. Encourage someone to slow down and take the difficult path of doing something right. Have patience! Treat others right!

stop, making excuses, and get at it.

The puppy bowl is absolute genius, marketing. They took a channel during an event that would have had poor ratings, and perhaps turned it into the most important viewing session of the channel of the year. Kudos to all of the people that invent puppy bowls and shark weeks. They turn insignificant things into cultural phenomenons.

Do not communicate your message directly! No one cares about you. I have repeatedly learned about the importance of what I call “sideways communication.” Directly presenting a message often results in limited #engagement. No one cares! However, embedding the message within a context that holds significant value for the audience can lead to greater #receptivity. This strategy involves understanding...

We all suck. Don’t forget that.

making sure that you’re working towards financial stability. Will allow you to walk away from everything that you do, and allow you to give some peace in your mind that worst case scenario you will be OK. And highly recommend for you to work on the basics, where you have insurance is to prevent financial catastrophe, working on wise choices that allow you to contribute a lot financially to your lo...

I spoke to one of the world's leading scientific experts on oil spills. Chris Reddy, an oceanographic, is one amazing person, and understands the culture of science. Christopher Reddy talks about his experiences as a scientist and why it is important to set boundaries in work, why it is important to find a bigger why in science, and dealing with family life in #science. He also talks about why it...