Thank you for this great and insightful episode! I am grateful that you addressed the issue of combining an academic career & private life as well, sometimes it seems to me that everybody who got successful had to give up on the latter, which is really sad.
Thank you for your comment. It s an incredibly tough thing indeed. Being married and having two daughters myself, while being absolutely passionate about my work and willing to pursue an academic career, I m exactly in the middle of all this. An accomplished scholar once told me something I keep preciously with me: "On their death bed, certainly no scholar think they should have spend more on a paper. However, more time with their loved ones, certainly many." Science might be your reason to live, fair enough. But giving everything, means everything and missing the rest. I personally stopped working 12h/day and on the weekend, quit an academic position where it was expected/necessary. The time spent with my wife, daughters are my everything. Times goes fast. All the best
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Thank you for this great and insightful episode! I am grateful that you addressed the issue of combining an academic career & private life as well, sometimes it seems to me that everybody who got successful had to give up on the latter, which is really sad.
Thank you for your comment. It s an incredibly tough thing indeed.
Being married and having two daughters myself, while being absolutely passionate about my work and willing to pursue an academic career, I m exactly in the middle of all this.
An accomplished scholar once told me something I keep preciously with me:
"On their death bed, certainly no scholar think they should have spend more on a paper. However, more time with their loved ones, certainly many."
Science might be your reason to live, fair enough. But giving everything, means everything and missing the rest.
I personally stopped working 12h/day and on the weekend, quit an academic position where it was expected/necessary. The time spent with my wife, daughters are my everything. Times goes fast.
All the best
Thank you so much for this honest answer and for sharing your personal experience! You are a real inspiration!
Great video, thanks a lot! Could you perhaps also share the link to the Twitter thread?
Here it is: twitter.com/rdahis/status/1369451140421615616
He also has this really cool doc (Advice for researchers: www.ricardodahis.com/papers/Dahis_Advice_Research.pdf