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R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Professor David Maslach talks about graduate school, research, science, Innovation, and entrepreneurship. The R3ciprocity project is my way to give back as much as I possibly can. I seek to provide insights and tools to change how we understand science, and make it more democratic.
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- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Economists, Opportunities, & Innovation
I offered $10 to 4 people FOR FREE. ZERO people have taken me up on the offer. A very generous person gave me $20 to give to $10 to two people so that they…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
On The Naivety Of Theorizing
There is a dramatic difference between theory and the practical environment and the key issue is because the practical environment contains context that is…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Thank You Sir.
I just want to say thank you to the good Samaritan in my life.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Learn Acceptance, Not To Convince
You often need to accept people as they are. Despite clear evidence, not everyone is open to accepting it. There are many reasons why people may feel…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Keep ON Moving Even into Your 100s
Keep moving I’m feeling good about yourself well into your 100s. If you don’t make it there, at least you spent a lifetime smiling and playing.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
I Don’t Know How To Say “No”
"I don't know how to say no," often stems from fear and judgment about their past decisions. You may feel shame about how things turned out. Remember, you…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Don’t Lose Faith In Yourself. One More Day
Persistency is key—just keep moving forward, one step at a time, day after day. Often, the difference between those you complete their goals and others is…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Having A Career Outside Of Your Career
having a career outside of your career is healthy, and it allows you to continue to grow as a person. It allows you to continue to do great things for…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Building Your Venture Is A Slow Grind For Everybody
Starting and growing a #business, doing #phd research, or any idea is a challenging journey for everyone. It begins with a simple step, acknowledging that the…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Why Productivity Techniques Don’t Work.
I used to wonder why people often give up on tough tasks. It's not about their productivity. In fact, focusing too much on productivity can actually backfire…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Older Couples That Do Things Together
It truly is amazing to see older people that do things together as a couple. It’s important to have somebody to share your life with, and to get out of the…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Meet The Entrepreneur: David Maslach & Vishal Gupta @ U Alabama On Changing Research
we talk about how to change research with the R3ciprocity Project, and what might that look like.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
The Naive Belief That People Would Rally.
The #1 lesson I learned from creating the #R3ciprocity Project: YOU DON’T CARE. What you must understand with all things in your life is this: Ultimately, you…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
What Is More Important Is That You Show Up And Be Humble
Making sure that you always win at all costs can lead to problematic behaviors. It is very easy to want to impress other people as there is often a lot of…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
What Does Success Even Mean In Academia?
Help me thank a #PhD today by rethinking what success means in academia. Traditionally, we view success through a narrow lens, often defining it in ways that…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
You Don’t Have To Impress Anyone
#Educators: Live Authentically To Be Happy in #Academia. Stop Listening To The Metrics & Criticisms! One critical lesson that has profoundly influenced my…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
But, Is There Money In It?
We almost always default the thinking that our time is actually worth something. The truth is is that it’s only worth some thing when you reach out and begin…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
We Are All Peacocking Together
Think about the things in your life that you’re just doing because of impression management. Is it OK to do impression management? Absolutely. But, you have to…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
You May Never Improve.
It’s OK to realize that many things in life actually do not improve with experience. Not everything is malleable and not everything can be learnt That’s where…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Have A Healthy Dose Of “Stick It To Them.”
Have a healthy dose of walking past people that do not want to support you in the first place. They know that they can support you, but they choose not to…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Just Have Humility In life - You Will Mess Up.
You will mess up, and things will not work out as planned. If you assume this is the case, you will be a lot more humbler about the future. Always bet on the…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Do Irrational And Strange Things
do things in your life that other people won’t understand and have no economic value in other peoples lives. Most things that matter in our lives would not be…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
2024 Features That We Are Developing On R3ciprocity
I’m excited to talk about some of the interesting features that we are currently working on with the R3ciprocity platform for 2024.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
How To Deal With A Career That Is Unfair?
How do you deal with an #academic #career that is unfair? How do you deal with a career where you will inevitably push a rolling stone uphill? You can either…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Change Requires Effort If You Want It
If you want positive #change in your life, it often requires a great deal of effort. It requires collective agreement that you are going to put an effort to do…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
What Does It Mean To Be A Good Student?
How can I make others feel better inside?
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Do You Believe In Education?
Identifying the effects of education is very difficult, and I would be skeptical, if anybody outlines that they can see a one-to-one relationship between…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Things Just Take Time
Doing things right takes an awful lot of time. Don’t worry about whether the external world things that you’re making progress, rather focus on doing things…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Be You. Be Awesome.
You are already #remarkable—You don’t need to “perfect” or improve anything. Rather than look for ways to be more productive, succeed, or any other performance…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Practice Not Taking Yourself So Seriously
Negative events will happen in your life. The more that you disassociate and detached from these negative events, the more likely that you’re gonna laugh them…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
You Need Support Groups & Positive Self Talk For Success
Don’t forget that you need a lot of positive self-talk and a supportive group to allow you to be successful. Doing well is not just about getting things done…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
How to Find Supportive People
Finding support is often challenging.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
You Cannot Control The Unfairness Of Life, But You Can Control Your Actions
Life's unfairness doesn't ask for permission; it just shows up, throwing obstacles in our path that seem insurmountable. The world of #academia is no stranger…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
I’m Tired. Building a Platform Is Hard.
Despite the fact that I don’t want to get up and do this yet again, I will try. It’s one more time that I put something out that only a few people are going…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Are We Comparing Apples To Oranges?
Don’t compare apples to oranges. Just because they are round, doesn’t mean they are the same.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
You Can Accomplish A Lot In 3 Decades
we often think that our job is to move the dial in the next year. And almost all of my experience, that dialed does not move that much in a given year. In…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
There is Never One Cause
We are often taught from a very young age that there is a single solution to a problem, yet this is rarely the case in that solutions come from many different…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
What Can You Actually Do About It?
What can you actually do about it? Most people will not care about the thing that you’re thinking about, a small fraction will be so upset that all they do is…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
When You Know Your Work Will NOT Be Rewarded
There are many moments where your work will not get rewarded. This is a fact of life. Your job is not to focus on the outcomes, but the focus on your actions…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Start As Small As Possible For Entrepreneurship
I’ve been increasingly convinced that starting incredibly small is far better for entrepreneurship than starting bigger.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Sometimes You Have To Work Within The Constraints You Are Given
Often you have to work within the constraints that you are given. You might not agree with these constraints, but it’s a part of making hard decisions. One has…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Don’t Miss Out On The Digital Economy
Are you missing out on digital changes in the economy? We tend to default to what we know when there are macro changes that are going on. The digital economy…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Analyzing Data Is Just Damn Hard
Analyzing all data is difficult, and until you get the experience of looking at data and trying to make sense of it, you will always under appreciate how…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
When You Explore Life Expect Inconsistencies In Your Identity
I grew up with the smell of tanning beaver pelts in our basement, eating moosemeat, and snaring rabbits. Then, I became a business professor. When you explore…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Living Below What You Make Always Hurts
Living below what you make is always a challenging thing for all of us. We have challenges of social comparison, the pain of giving up joy today, and the…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Most Things Are Slow and You Cannot Change That
Most things are really slow and you can’t change that. Many things in life are simply a slow step-by-step process that you can’t hurry up. There’s no system or…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
How Many People Can I Get To Feel Happy Or Good Inside?
how many people can you get to feel happy inside? What might that look like if you work with the premise that you are going to try to make other people, feel…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Every Project That Is Important Will Test Your Faith
Every project that is meaningful to you will result at some point where you lose faith in yourself. Losing faith is a fundamental and important part of “doing…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
I Worry About The Lack Of Interest In The Day To Day
I worry about our lack of understanding of the day-to-day in the business world. We tend to discount things that are ordinary, and that are representative of…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Practicing Self Forgiveness Helps Me Do Better Everyday
Take advantage of the little time that you have. That means taking care of yourself, spending time with family, and looking for moments to work. My algo is…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Strategy Plays A Much Smaller Role Than Action & Your Endowments
Constantly putting in the work often get you further along then thinking about putting in the work. Where are you end up in life often is dictated more from…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Our Predictions Are Often Poor
Our predictions are often very poor, and we have to make do with these poor predictions. Knowing that we’re not gonna be good at making good predictions of the…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Focus On Efforts, Not Outcomes
Focus on the fact that you’re doing “something,” rather than any of the outcomes that you’re ever going to get from it. Focusing on “outcomes,” almost always…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Where Are The Plumbers & Babysitters In Business Case Studies?
explain some of the challenges of why we often don’t see some businesses being represented in business research. We need to more openly talk about these…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Why Can’t You?
Why can’t you? I have learned that most of us talk ourselves out of great things. Before you start, you say “ that would be a great idea, but…” Then you never…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Do Cringey Things
Do Cringey Things. It is only after a while that you realize that they are not cringey after all.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Careerism In Academia: Zero Correlation Between Work and Outcomes
I am convinced that there’s zero to negligible correlation between effort in outcomes in academia. This allows me to focus on other things that give me…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
The World Is Going To Hell… Actually We Are Blessed.
Many moments you wake up, and you have a very negative view of the world. I want you to remind yourself, and just how fortunate that we actually are. Destitute…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Fragile Nature Of Data: Let’s Just Be Honest
Most people do not understand the #fragile nature of data. I often don’t think it’s on the data analyst or author’s side that we need to worry about. We need…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Empowering Scientists: Lottery-based Funding System! | Karim Lakhani | Harvard Business Professsor
Two distinguished scholars, Dr. David Maslach and Professor Karim Lakhani, engage in a dynamic conversation about innovation, science, and mentorship. Maslach…