{"title":"Hints for a successful scientific career","authors":"Peter Townsend","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192857477.003.0017","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A bonus of writing a book at the end of a career is that hindsight offers thoughts on how it could have progressed more efficiently, or better exploited results and opportunities. The chapter considers many key factors that lead to success in science, with topics ranging from fields of interest, to training, promotion of image, attendance at conferences etc. Many ideas apply beyond science but are rarely widely discussed, nevertheless they’re valuable even with changing patterns of work and communications. A further factor is that it is possible to realise that knowledge should not be confined to a narrow topic area, one should recognize and welcome discoveries and thoughts even if generated by serendipity, and understand how to optimize a scientific image. Finally, scientific opinion is not always correct, even if ideas have been promoted for a very long time.","PeriodicalId":180044,"journal":{"name":"The Power of Imperfections","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Power of Imperfections","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192857477.003.0017","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A bonus of writing a book at the end of a career is that hindsight offers thoughts on how it could have progressed more efficiently, or better exploited results and opportunities. The chapter considers many key factors that lead to success in science, with topics ranging from fields of interest, to training, promotion of image, attendance at conferences etc. Many ideas apply beyond science but are rarely widely discussed, nevertheless they’re valuable even with changing patterns of work and communications. A further factor is that it is possible to realise that knowledge should not be confined to a narrow topic area, one should recognize and welcome discoveries and thoughts even if generated by serendipity, and understand how to optimize a scientific image. Finally, scientific opinion is not always correct, even if ideas have been promoted for a very long time.
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