Timeline for Source of wisdom on how to improve the ratio of time feeling fulfilled to time feeling frustrated in research?
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| Jun 6, 2010 at 22:01 | answer | added | Tom Ellis | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 23, 2010 at 19:18 | comment | added | MTS | I've definitely heard something to that effect before: "When you prove your big theorem, celebrate tonight; there will be time to find the mistake tomorrow morning." But I never heard an attribution for it. | |
| May 23, 2010 at 19:07 | answer | added | Greg Kuperberg | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 23, 2010 at 17:13 | comment | added | Pietro Majer | In my experience, if I feel like taking a walk after having a promising idea, instead of checking the idea and working it out... it's quite a suspicious sign. | |
| May 23, 2010 at 7:28 | comment | added | Ian Agol | I've taken that walk many times when I've discovered a new theorem, only to figure out that I made an error when I work it out more carefully later :( | |
| May 23, 2010 at 7:25 | comment | added | Anweshi | This question and its answers might help, though originally when I asked it I was raked over hot coals here ... mathoverflow.net/questions/10419/depressed-graduate-student | |
| May 23, 2010 at 5:13 | history | asked | Eleanor Rieffel | CC BY-SA 2.5 |