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

It’s important to remember that new ideas, new products and new attempts are most likely to fail. They’re most likely not to work out and most likely not to garner a lot of attention. You will fail. Rather than thinking about success, you have to come into any new project thinking that you’re trying to mitigate the almost certainly of failure. “You are a failure” requires a completely different lo...

Hacks and tips do very little in terms of making sure that you succeed in the long run. The best thing that you can do to ensure your success is to focus on living a happy and healthy life. It’s about focusing on getting back up and doing it again regardless of how you actually feel about it. I can’t remember a single hack or tip in my life that actually made a difference. What is made a differenc...

i’m driven by my good fortune in life. I was born at a time where we have farmer opportunity. He’s the new ever has. And we can tackle some big enormous problems simply with persistence. I’m super excited to do that so that other people can see you confuse things even though you’re just a little love you. We have the opportunity to take us to world because of the times we live in. Nobody else has...

The standard view with #entrepreneurship is that somebody sees an opportunity, and they pursue that opportunity. From my perspective, it’s actually the opposite: the opportunity finds you. You do not necessarily want to go through all of the work of being an entrepreneur, but the problem is so pervasive and important as soon as you raise your hand that it exists, people want to support that partic...

How did the R3ciprocity Project Get It’s Name? R3ciprocity got its name with a simple comment made by one of my advisors. He said, “Don’t thank me, pay the favor forward to somebody else someday.” So I did. 1000s of times over. A small comment goes a long way.

The good all days thankfully have passed. Many people romanticize what things were like in the past. I encourage you to pick any specific area of your life and think about the way that used to be 30 years ago. In almost all areas of your life, you’ll realize once you pick a category that our life is phenomenally better then it ever used to be. For me, I was thinking about the headaches that I get...

The real story is you never really know what is the right answer. So you get up and you just do it, and you have fun. You’re likely making mistakes at any given moment, and you’re probably a mess. But, who cares? The goal is to keep going and smile along the way.

The standard academic story is that person pushes away the outside world for 30 years, and then we celebrate that particular person for doing so. Can we change the story? How do we ensure that you feel like you are part of a community? Can we ensure all people you’re welcome and included? I think so. I think if we repeatedly tell people that they’re not alone, that they are remarkable, and that th...

Your life is incredibly short, and I think you need to be very careful with what you choose to do in your life. If you pursue things for the sake of meeting market demands, I fear that you might wake up one day, 25 years later and realize that you’re no happier today than you were 25 years earlier. Pursue those things that make you feel alive inside. You can find a way to make it viable, it’s only...

and the reason why I do the reciprocity project is the number of people that come up to me with tears in her eyes. The number of people that are to deuce that they’re somehow academic failures or problems is far too large, and we need to change this. We need to change the conversation to focus on positive reinforcement and thinking about ways to make our careers. Fun and exciting In short, we need...

that’s just the way this is a terrible excuse. Yet most of us decide that’s what we were up to you talk to you. Will conclude that the world is fixed and we can’t make a difference. Yes, changing many of the social structures that we have often a difficult. There’s often no good way of making change, but you can figure it out if you don’t except that’s the way it is as an excuse. I think a lot of...

When you create innovative endeavors, you have to be OK with knowing what you’re doing is good. It’s highly likely that most people will not understand it and highly likely that most people will ignore it. Having that stability inside to get up and do your thing is all that matters. Keep doing good things, regardless of their outcomes. You be you.

We need to redefine academia and what it means to be an academic.

I can either sit there and dwell or I can roll with the punches and love who I am, and try to live on the world even more. The world is often not going to be forgiving, but you can be forgiving of yourself.

Finding product market fit is a challenge and it never is going to be intuitive at the gecko. Understanding what the market wants and what you can actually build is never quite clear.

Spam versus getting the word out. How do you actually deal with getting your word out for your entrepreneurial endeavor? You just get up and practice. Know that you are kind of spamming people, but you keep trying and don’t worry about if there’s any negative consequences that are going to happen. It’s likely most people are not gonna care as much as you think that they will in your head.

it’s important to remember not to push away the things that are most important in your life. Graduate school and doing research teaches you to push away it’s not as important as you think it is, and some of the more important things are more important than you think they are.

You just have to last at doing any entrepreneurial are innovative thing. It’s not what you imagine it to be.

Learning how to not feel like a failure, is an important characteristic, that all researchers in innovators have to think about. An important part of dealing with the research game is knowing that you’re not a failure, and that it is simply just part of the process. Understanding of the outcomes that you get are different for every person is a vital clue to the process. Knowing how to say, just sc...

The fundamental flaw in science and in research life is believing that you need to have one single answer. It’s believing that life has a true value that we’re trying to find. In my experience, almost everything has a multiplicity of values that are all equally valid. The more that we get to this view of validating all perspectives, the more likely that we’re going to make progress in the research...

I think about how the playing field is not a level in science or an academic. We can change this, but it’s going to require a considerable amount of work and technology development to have a leveler Plainfield in scientific research.

understanding that nice guys finish first is one of the most important lessons that you’ll ever learn in life. When you feel comfortable around other people and there’s no desire to impress or censor yourself, you know that you’re in presence of good people. Who do you want to be around people where you’re afraid that they’re going to take advantage of you, or people that make you feel you? Who do...

I talk about my love of toast, and I can spend a great deal more time talking about how toast is just wonderful. But, I talked about all of the feelings in the joys of toast, and why we should have more toast in our lives.

Much of your life is outside of your control. Your decisions are often made not made by you, and the outcomes that you get are often not a reflection of any decision that you made. So how do you deal with this? Practice being grateful and practice reminding yourself that you’re remarkable no matter what happens.

The sum of scientific failures is likely much greater than what we would consider research stars. The productivity that comes from most people is spectacular if you were to sum up all of that research effort. The question then becomes a how do we leverage that large group, and be how should we get them the accolades that they deserve.