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

given that we all have different starting points, you can’t use the use others as a good reference point. It makes no sense to compare yourself against others that have different resources are, and are in different domains than you. Then given this problem, what do you do? The only answer that I know that works is to work repeatedly within a single domain. Put an unbelievable amount of effort in o...

Focus on encouragement I’m thinking about ways that you could take steps forward, rather than focusing on the corrective actions of the behaviors that you did in the past. I often think that there’s very little to be learned from past actions, and there’s more to begin by focusing on future opportunities.

Almost all fields in #education, presume that there is a right answer. As a consequence, we often teach (and research) that there is a single answer, or at least a better answer. Regression — the workhorse of science — presumes that there is a single best answer. You also here “if you simply just follow these six easy steps..., it will be amazing.” In my life experience, which doesn’t mean much, t...

I talk about the idea of equilibrium in a complex system.

I find it puzzling that people are hesitant to try new and remarkable technologies, even though they could save a lot of energy and time. It's amazing how much new technology can improve our abilities and generate opportunities for us over the years. However, most people are reluctant to give it a try. They may not be afraid, but they simply don't think it's worth their time. It's surprising to me...

I wanted to simply say how much I appreciate you, and that having this ability to reach out to other people that I don’t know is a gift. What an opportunity that we have. Social media, despite what everybody thinks, it’s an amazing opportunity to spread some good in this world. Why not change? Why not start encouraging others to do well. Life is too short to pay attention to the negativity. Create...

When you become an associate #professor, many things change in your life that you didn’t think would change. The biggest thing that changed for me was my perspective about the world. When I realized was “nobody cared.”And why should they? It only matters to you. What I realized was that I can’t convince other people to care. I became #bitter with the rest of the world. But, I think this bitterness...

I encourage you to pursue your dreams. Nobody is going to make those dreams happen except for yourself. The only way that you make them happen if you start. I realize that many of you don’t come for much, and it’s going to take a long journey to get to where you want to be. But, the only way that I know how to get there as you start and you repeat every day. You make it happen through grinding wor...

We need to vastly embrace artificial intelligence. The interesting part of artificial intelligence is it ability to replace things that nobody really likes to do at this moment. It’s very much an extension of who we are as individuals by it accelerates our capabilities by magnitudes.

You don’t get to someplace by focusing on the BIG reward that you’re going to get. You focus on the little tiny steps that it takes to get there. It seems silly to focus on the big reward. I often ask question “how do you build #Walmart?” We all likely want to be the Waltons, but how did that happen? Nobody knows how to actually connect between where you are right now and that BIG reward in the fu...

I can’t change the scientific profession. However, I can speak to the one person that was like me and struggling to get a job. The scientific endeavor is never easy and it’s not gonna come easy. For those that are fortunate now, maybe things will work out for you, but for the rest of us, we realize that it’s a struggle. It’s one day at a time.

All of us believe that we need resources to do some thing. We need more #resources to be more efficient at work, we need more resources to be better parents, and we need more resources to have more fun. if only I had more money, my life would be better off. To heck with having more resources. Just make do with what you have. If it looks shoddy, just make a fun of the fact that it’s actually shoddy...

You can only do what you can.

Your #expectations for your performance are often not set by your employer. The expectations for your performance are often set by the market. But, who the heck knows what the “market” is? How you perceive your reference that in the market is often distorted with your own personal biases. Your best expectations for your performance is to look at what you actually “do” in a given day, accounting fo...

We have to think about the experiences that people get, and also the non-experiences that they are not exposed to. I believe that not getting access to opportunities and experiences are more important than the experiences that you actually do have in what happens in your own life. The problem is you’ll never know what is, these non-experiences that we should have gotten in that would have made an...

Just do little incremental things every day. Remember you’re good enough you don’t really need to improve anything.

I discuss major themes with the discussion of whether TikTok should be banned. This extremely complicated issue with many years of American culture to deal with. There’s interweaving interest from many countries, and I think the bigger question is not necessarily TikTok itself, but what are the unintended consequences of banning or not banning Tik Tok for the long run competitiveness Ultimately, I...

Assume that all technology is adopted very slowly, and think about ways how you can work within that reality were things will take a lot longer than you thought they will. We will have natural tendencies to believe things will go quickly, when in reality, almost everything that we will actually do in life will take a lot longer than what we thought it will be. Assume it will take twice as long as...

Chat GPT will change the face of how we actually interact with the world, and it will likely improve research dramatically over the next few years. It will become indispensable to almost everybody within the research game.

the current academic research game is broken. There’s far too many people that fall through the cracks, and those people that become extraordinary successful often have to do so through various different, competitive and strategic games. Well, that may be the objective, and we all should be playing those games, but there’s a whole group of people that is vastly larger in population size that don’t...

Most new ventures in new ideas will result in no impact at all. You can sit there, and be dismayed that nobody cared about it, or you can get to work. Figure out a way to appeal to other people, and do that repeatedly until it actually works.

Your life does not change when you get up early or stay up late. It will naturally go to where there is a homeostasis in don’t gain extra hours by getting up early, and you don’t gain extra hours from staying up late. You will not actually want to sleep a certain amount because that’s what your body requires. Any amount of motivation or deadlines simply is robbing yourself in the future of that ti...

Every venture that you pursue is going to be difficult, and it does not happen overnight. I don’t believe any advertising or anybody that tells you differently. I don’t expect unicorns to emerge, and that you won’t have unbelievable success in a matter of a few years The journey is long and tedious. It’s filled with self-doubt. Nobody will believe in you. And there’s very few secrets that will lea...

I am deeply appreciative of the fact that I live today, and not a few generations ago. People don’t realize just how prosperous most of the world actually is, and most of this prosperity came within the last 50 years. I never knew my great grandparents, but I suspect that they would say “you fool, quit focusing on what you don’t have, and focus on all of that amazing magical things that you do hav...

Our current understanding of many fields is still imperfect, despite hundreds of years of study. Most phenomena remain poorly understood, such as markets and organizations. While our explanations are often quite good, they fail to explain many aspects of these fields. The reason for this is the incentives that drive us to focus on interesting and impactful subjects, which mostly center around larg...