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

Once you’re on this side of the dirt, you realize your life doesn’t change that much if you get something new. The desire to get something new is manufactured in your head. Your life does not change. The only thing that matters is that you are happy and healthy, not things that you actually get.

Give yourself some grace and realize that there’s only so much you can do in a given day. Getting sleep is just as important as everything else.

I talk about how many of us feel lonely and isolated, but with the advent of social media, you never have to feel lonely and isolated again. Just want to give you some encouragement and say you’re not in this alone keep doing it every day. You got this.

I encourage you to pursue opportunities and do that over the long run. As you show up every day you create some thing that somebody else does not possess. What you create matters.

I talk about how I finish my PhD with a learning disability. This is a “disability”that I discovered that I had once I became an assistant professor. I always struggled with school, perhaps much more than other people. I was in special ed until I was in grade 5, and then paying attention in class always was a challenge for me. When people look at me, they don’t realize that I struggle with that, p...

How to get a #technology #career as a non-technology person? Getting into technology companies, such as #amazon, #google, and #SpaceX might seem far-fetched for many non-technology people, however if you’re keen on those places I strongly believe that you can find a great position for you. Over the years, I’ve seen many people make a transition to and from #tech that you would never expect. Your c...

I grapple with fitting between multiple identities of who I am. And, I don’t think that there is a right answer. The key thing is to be kind on yourself when you make a lot of mistakes.

Data analysis requires converting the theoretical to the practical, and as a result it is often extremely addicting.

whenever and cover the earth is bad Akademie is full of all sorts of people. Some of these people are happy that many or not. My job is not to succeed in this environment. My job is to keep myself happy and healthy, and let the rest take care of her self. When she realize that it winning and losing does not make sense in the long run, you become good with you you are. You say screw you to the rest...

Entrepreneurship is the right thing for you when you passionately know that what you’re doing is good, and is adding value to the world. Most people in your mediate circle will not understand what you’re trying to do, and you just simply have to say screw it and do it anyways. You have to know that nothing that you’re doing is right and just.

I think the thing we often assume is that there is a “right” answer with your career. Just find your passion. We should go search for a new job regularly and seek out the highest paying and the “best” job available. It is a simple maximization problem that they teach you in #economics. The problem is that you have costs to search, understanding which job is better requires incommensurate tradeoffs...

Don’t assume that a lot is going to happen in one day. Normally, nothing happens. However, if you just keep taking steps every day good things happen over the long run. The problem is that it is difficult to keep taking those steps every day, and that’s when most people #quit. There’s nothing wrong with #quitting, but you do see a tremendous amount of progress if you stick with it. Keep taking one...

You don’t have to specialize in any particular things. We’re a lot more complicated than the perception of that we need to specialize in a particular career. We need to remember that as people we have many identities that are important in many ways in our lives.

I discuss my thoughts about thinking about how much one should consume of your wages and salaries, and as well as how much you say consume of your environment. There is no right answers, and the challenge is figuring out your consumption rate for you. How much you should consume is different for everybody, but it’s far likely that it is much below how much resources you actually generate.

When does it always appreciate the stress that’s involved in teaching in a classroom. You realize how important it is to manage this stress as you teach more often.

Keep putting in one more days worth of work. That’s the name of the game is getting up and doing it despite not feeling like you want to.

When I started my #research career, I was profoundly naïve in how difficult it actually was. The amount of #rejection that you receive is unbelievably high. The rejection rate is almost at 95% it’s some of the good journals. You believe that those people that are being rejected are not good enough when you start. You don’t realize is that they’ve worked just as hard and are as intelligent as you....

In order to move ahead, you have to realize that things happen in your past that you’re not OK with. You can’t stop those things have happened in the past, but what you can do is acknowledge that they actually existed, and be open and work through those things.

The Hamburger Rule Of Being #Successful: Once you’re able to afford going out for a #hamburger and french fries once a week for the rest of your life, you you are extremely successful. Everything beyond that it’s just gravy and #poutine. Your life is not going change that much if you get more. You just get fancier gravy and cheese curds on your french fries. The plate might be a bit fancier in the...

You got this. Keep going no matter what people are telling you. There’s two types of people in this world. One type is going to give you encouragement—these are rare. The other are going to block you and push you down—these are the majority. I just want to tell you that you really can make a difference in this world. Everyday you will feel like you get pushed down. But, you get up and get going ev...

The problem with decision making you never know what the right outcome actually will be until very far down the road. Consequently, you’re never going to know whether what you were doing is correct in the moment. The only thing you could do is go by your gut feel or where you want to be in a few decades from now.

From my perspective, we need to convert to renewable energy sources faster, not because of climate change, but because of our depletion of a non-renewable resource. Climate change is a significant issue, and alarming, however the larger conversation that nobody is focusing on the depletion of resources that are irreversible. From an innovation perspective, depleting a valuable resource that could...

There’s not much to doing good things in your life that require #courage, you just have to have fun and enjoy the process. Remember all of those people that are trying to tear you down, they are actually NOT doing it. What the hell do they have to say if they have never done it. Just a bunch of armchair #quarterbacks. They tear you down because they don’t have the courage to actually do it themsel...

I just want to remind you how much I appreciate you. You do not have to listen, read, or be are part of anything in the #R3ciprocity project. It’s not every day that I get to meet people from around the world - virtually I can, but I get the impression that you are an awesome person. Thank you so very much.

I change the conversation to think about just focusing on having a good day, rather than focusing on productivity and efficiency.