Takeaways
- Focus on the process – learning, research and community participation instead of goals (to publish a paper).
- If you feel stuck, you can focus on drawing connections on what ideas you have collected.
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How to stay on top of the progress:
- Keep a reading list
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Have a reading strategy
- Taking notes is important. So that you can discover and revisit ideas later.
- Expand horizons by reading related areas
- Curate the sources
- But personally, I don’t think any human can keep up with the research papers and at best, we are just catching up.
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To develop a research vision and grow research maturity
- Take initiatives
- Focus on what matters
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Perseverance. Similar to what James Clear wrote in
[[Atomic Habits]]❌ that motivation only gets you started before it wears off, you need some thing else to get you through the process.
research is fundamentally a community endeavor
If there is a community, chances are that you will get help from it at certain point and you pass on the help in return. I mean, the collaboration is essentially how human society works towards a better place efficiently.