Ideas aren’t getting harder to find and anyone who tells you otherwise is a coward and I will fight them
- Photo cred: my dadI’ve worked with a lot of research assistants over the years, and at some point we inevitably have The Talk: should they get a PhD?
- I was recently having The Talk with one particularly distraught student, who was worried her ideas aren’t good enough.
- “Maybe I’m not cut out for it,” she told me, “or maybe all of the easy ideas have already been done.
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- Photo cred: my dadI’ve worked with a lot of research assistants over the years, and at some point we inevitably have The Talk: should they get a PhD?
- I was recently having The Talk with one particularly distraught student, who was worried her ideas aren’t good enough.
- “Maybe I’m not cut out for it,” she told me, “or maybe all of the easy ideas have already been done.
Sources: Experimental-history