Recently in one of those impromptu conversations that yields a great deal of wisdom for everyone present or, at least, something to ponder, I heard two things. Lack of confidence is a career killer. At heart, we all know this somehow; the appearance of confidence (in the right doses of course) is attractive; it's opposite inspires pity. That's not what the professor was talking about - it was about how it will frustrate your efforts to finish work to publish and, at the end of the day, this is a job, and our success is measured by how much we publish. The goal is to get over the bar of the editor, and once you get there, you either get published, or you get a reader's report. Either way, you win. So, just bang the words out and there you have it.
This led to some interesting discussion and reflection.
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