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

It’s important to focus on the positive aspects of the work that you’re doing. Also remember to try to make it a fun experience by thinking about how you can be more social.

One of the key lessons Apple learned is that adversity is actually the key. You have to keep remembering to build overtime. it has little to do with what you are given, and more to do with the slow grind.

I remind you that you have unbelievable opportunities, but how you get there is by executing on what you wanna do in the future repeatedly. It never happens overnight, and each step feels small.

I talk about the pros and cons of labeling in science. It’s important to label because then you understand how the thing that you’re looking at has pros and cons. However, the challenge is that labeling creates opportunities to stigmatize specific groups and identify those groups as problematic. We need to be careful when we label but realize that labeling is an important part to develop new knowl...

You have to practice being yourself, and making time for yourself. It’s a Learnt scale and it requires constant effort just like any other confidence in your life.

Remember that you can mimic other people, and figure out how to craft your own story. Think about how you can be more of yourself by using other people as a role model.

I talk about how I stumbled in to being a online therapist for Innovators, Academics, Entrepreneurs. I discuss how we’re all the same, and we simply have to manage the uncertainty that we feel. How we deal with anxiety and uncertainty predicts where we’ll end up going.

It’s just flat out wrong to focus on scientific research productivity. Your goal is to simply just put in the work, and ignore scientific research productivity. If we train future scientist just to focus on the numbers, there is no incentive for them to do good work. In my view scientific research productivity is a banal construct, and there is no, or minimal, direct relationship between action an...

I talk about the culture of research, and what it’s like in the academic game. Remember that you’re a good person and that you are remarkable. Keep those in mind as you’re going about your day. Have confidence in who you are, and always help out other people when given the opportunity.

I talk about social influence and content creation. I discussed through what it means to be a social influencer, and why there is a considerable amount of sales people considering themselves as social influencers, when they really are not.

I talk about why it’s important to provide a tremendous amount of content online. The goal is to build a reputation overtime, and use some of the factors or characteristics of the Internet. Three of the biggest factors is the fact that information storage is inexpensive, there are compound effects, and heterogeneous preferences across people.

How come business professors don’t use their empirical findings for investment strategies in financial markets? I suggest that the world is a lot more complicated than the simplistic models that we use for our research findings. Our goal is for generalization and not prediction.

My message is always consistent. It is just keeping the steps forward. Keep moving towards where you want to go, no matter what is going on in your life. It’s the consistency that it’s going to get you to where you need to go. Nothing else.

I talk about how it’s very difficult to figure out how to make money quickly. However if you focus on your ha and skill over the long-term, and constantly build your competence in that area you can do extremely well.

for some reason, my days are almost always completely filled, no matter how I plan my day. I am always rushing to get my work done, and no matter how much rushing that I do, there’s always more work to be done at the end of the day. It’s an interesting phenomenon where we fill our day with work, no matter what you actually are accomplishing throughout the day. There is always a mad rush to complet...

I talk about why I am doing the R3ciprocity project. And talk about the personal journey that I’ve been going through, and hopefully bring you on this journey. Talk about the challenges of academia, and life in general, where you do everything right and things just don’t work out despite that. You simply have to remember that you’re a good person no matter what happens to you. Reminding everybody...

There’s no secret to building some sort of skill or capability, or any other thing in your life that matters to you. The secret is to show up when nobody else wants to. Everything that matters in your life always sucks when you’re actually trying to get it. Once you actually get there, you’ll realize that it’s the act of showing up, and that grind, that allowed you to actually achieve it.

I talked about the right amount of abstraction and research paper. The more abstract the idea is the more it’s gonna account for more things, however the less that is going to be contextual. The problem is is that contextual understanding is a lot easier than extract understanding. I think the only way that you know what is the correct amount of abstraction is simply through trial and error.

One of the things that I’ve learned with the reciprocity project is realizing that most people are very self-centered. Coming to terms with the fact that people are self-centered is challenging, however I am learning to exploit the fact that most people are self-centered. In other words you work within the domain better self centered and then you figure out a structure such that people will natura...

One thing that I’ve learned is that you need to be OK with who you are and not be so caring about other people. You really have to take a step back and just be fine with who you are. You have to learn how to speak your thoughts, but then if nobody’s willing to listen to you, you have to be OK with that. We really need to step back, and simply wait until other people are ready to meet you halfway....

I talk about using intuition in your decision making. I think we should be incorporating more intuitive thought into our major decisions, and really pay attention to the subtle cues within decision that you make.

I talk about how many times we blame the leaders when there are changes in the macro economy, but it’s often not tied to their actions. I also discuss how consistency is often the best way to create economic growth.

it’s important to focus on the basic idea of what you’re trying to show. Statistical techniques I think I have overrun our literature, and we really need to think about whether we should be using fancier statistical techniques and science or not. In my personal appealing mean, we should be going back to basic plots.

Don’t just stop when you get a negative feedback. Keep working at it and refining it, all ideas are not good when you start.

I think we need to stop putting on as many airs as we put on, and stop pretending. Just try to be yourself, and ask for help when you need it. It’s an absolute learned skill to do so. This means that you need to stop projecting like you’re somebody, when we know none of us really are.