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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
Many Days You Are Not Going To Feel Good
Many days you’re not going to feel good, and you can’t change those days and can’t change your environment that makes you feel like that very quickly. What you…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Are You Serious? Are You Serious About Research?
“Are you serious? Are you serious about #research?” This question is seared into my brain, and still rings in my ears. I remember one of my advisors, asking me…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Learn How To Detach From The Want Of Things
Learn how to attach from things you want. It’s not a matter of whether you can get them, it’s whether you should get them right now.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Have Patience And Slow Down Your Pace
We need more people telling others to have patience, be nice, and don’t take #shortcuts. Most role models today are focused on doing things quickly, cheaply…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
You Have Excuses
stop, making excuses, and get at it.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Puppy Bowl: Genius Marketing
The puppy bowl is absolute genius, marketing. They took a channel during an event that would have had poor ratings, and perhaps turned it into the most…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Communicate Your Message In A Sideways Way
Do not communicate your message directly! No one cares about you. I have repeatedly learned about the importance of what I call “sideways communication.”…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Financial Stability During Your PhD Gives You Walk Away Power
making sure that you’re working towards financial stability. Will allow you to walk away from everything that you do, and allow you to give some peace in your…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Why Having Purpose In Science Is Important - Christopher Redding - Senior Scientist @ Woods Hole
I spoke to one of the world's leading scientific experts on oil spills. Chris Reddy, an oceanographic, is one amazing person, and understands the culture of…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Financial planning is an important part of success
Get a financial planner to do well in your career.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Be At Peace. Accept Who You Are
Be at peace with who you are. My whole life I have wanted “people to like me” and to fit in. That is why I got into education and #scienceandtechnology. I…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
I Need To Go Where I Am Going Too Quickly
As a #professor, I need to get to where I’m going often too quickly. I don’t know “where” I’m going, but I need to get there fast. If I told you, you wouldn’t…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
I Was Never Meant To Do This
I was never meant to do this. I strongly believe that if you have those feelings to embrace them and try to figure out what you’re actually about. Try to find…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Neoclassical Economics & Strategic Thinking Is Likely Wrong
#PhD students in business are taught to #strategize in their career. I think it’s the worst thing we can do. I have grown frustrated with the neoclassical…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Slow Down To Speed Up
most major moments of your life, and even within each day, just require you to slow down and not get panicky. The analogy that I like to give is that this is a…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
You Don’t Need To Define Yourself As The Best
I am not the best, nor will I ever will be. We define ourselves by being the “best” in any particular category. Once you’ve been living life long enough…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
What Do You Choose To Fill Your Tank?
Everybody has something that they used to fill their tank. What do you use to fill your tank? For me, I’m learning Italian, exercise, and watch TV with my…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Fight Against The Negativity In Your Life
Life requires you to often manage #negativity in your life. One of the things that has been important to me is realizing that my thoughts are often in my…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Dear International Students: Try This Method To Get Into Research Careers
This is how we tackle an application to a foreign researcher, so that you have far better odds of getting into graduate school then what is happening by a…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Don’t be Shy: Change Your Life
Don’t be so shy, and change your life out and being yourself. All of those things you’re afraid of you’re not as serious as you think they are.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
But You Don’t Understand. I Need To Get This Done
you don’t understand. I need to get this done. Those are the words that I often hear by people that are not centered. Many people that feel more centered have…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
My Parents Were Wonderful: My Default Is Love
My default will always be choosing an environment of love and compassion. I was privileged to be part of a family that had that.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Navigating Uncertainty In A Market
How does one navigate #uncertainty in a market? Honestly, there’s no right way. We presume that there is a strategic way, but in most cases, it just involves…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Market Feedback And Doing Everything Right
in school, we thought that we’re gonna get feedback almost every day. You do an assignment, a teacher, and you get to see how you did. You get regular few…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Don’t Let It Have Power Over You
we all have traits that we feel bad about. If you have strong negative emotions, and you can’t openly talk about it, it means that it has power over you. Don’t…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Follow your passion
“Follow your passion” they say. I don’t have a passion, and neither do “they.” #Academics are supposed to have a #passion for research. #Managers are supposed…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Management By Fear Vs. Management By Understanding
Much of modern management, and the outcome-based focus of management is an economic logic of management by fear. If you’ve done things, right, then you’ll get…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Strategy Professor is an ironic oxymoron
“#Strategy #Professor” is an ironic oxymoron. I am a Strategy Professor. This implies that I must “profess” some understanding about the world. Strategy…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Striving, Even In Your 70s
There’s a lot of people that have given up. They don’t feel like they should try. But, the amount of potential that you have even when you get older is…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
On the messiness of data in research
almost all data is very messy, and requires a great deal of effort to work with it. We need to be more open and honest, with the messiness of the real world.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
My Life As An Outsider In Academia
Much of my experience is my life, feeling like an outsider in academia, and feeling like I never quite fit in. Because of this, I always want other people to…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Work Together As Team In A Family
Work together as a team in a family. Knowing that everybody works as a team, but you have boundaries is an important part of a healthy relationship. It’s about…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
The Humble Professor
much of being a professor is admitting that you’re good enough as you are.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Are Academic Tenure Track Jobs Dying?
I contemplate whether academic tenure track jobs are dying, and what this means for anybody that is thinking about going into the career. I suggest rather that…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
When you believe that people are talking behind your back
When you believe that other people are talking behind your back, you have to take a step back and realize that everybody is self interested in there likely not…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Is There A Single Best Answer To Business Success?
is there a singular best answer to business success, and question and think about our world in the sense of a puristic world that is constantly changing. I…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Are You Helping Too Much In Your Organization?
Are you helping too much in your organization? Does it feel like you’re getting penalized for doing what you believe is right? I think it is important to talk…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
The financial returns of podcasting
I talk about the financial returns of podcasting or anything else in life. It’s often that you don’t get a one-to-one conversion in terms of the effort that…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Good luck to You!
Learning how to say, it’s not my problem or good luck to you isn’t important, skill set. Learning how to say good luck to you is a recognition of the…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Do We Really Have A Choice?
Do we really have a choice, I think out loud about whether we actually have choices in life and then give you some ways to think about the fact that we may not…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
How We Are All Measured
Much of our life has now being distilled down to numbers and metrics. #Academics are measured by often a single number. You often can’t change the numbers…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
2024: You Can’t Drown Out Optimism
Despite encountering actions from individuals with less than honorable intentions and those who spread #negativity, it's important to recognize that the world…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Should Investors Care About Who They Give Their Money To?
Should investors care about who they actually give their monies to? The answer is that if you’re worried about your individual portfolio firms, you’re likely…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
My Faith In Scientific Process Is Very Low
My faith in the scientific review process of generating results that are meaningful is actually very low. I talk about what this actually means and what we can…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Be Able To Detach
Being able to detach is an important skillset. This includes being independent of most things that we can grow dependencies on, such as money, relationships…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Learning how to be assertive in science and research
The longer I’ve been in the profession as a researcher, the more I realize that how I conduct myself in terms of being a passivist or submissive, the more…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Jack Goncalo: Professor Of Creativity
We talk about academic life, what it means to be a creative, and how are you fit in when you feel like you never fit in. We talk about the courage it takes to…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Just As Long As You Work At It
Just as long as you’re working at it, I think that’s all that really matters. Most people will rather sit on the sidelines and think about how the perfect play…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Make It Happen
Make it happen. Doing large projects requires a conscious effort, and the only way that you can accomplish things is just to make it happen. I don’t know any…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
How To Get To Millions? Start Small.
Almost all of the self-help and financial management pop-culture books, and even the academic literature, assumes people are far more motivated than what they…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
New Feature On R3ciprocity: Clustering Of Papers For Conferences And Classrooms
I talk about a new feature that we are building into the R3ciprocity platform that will hopefully aid people in their classrooms and as well as conference…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Age, Wisdom, & Beauty
we need to be careful not to use external characteristics that are easy to observe, and use characteristics that are much more deeper and more align with what…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Much Needed Inspiration
You get up and you do it anyways. No matter how it feels and what you’re going through, you put in the work to actually get to where you’re going to go. Nobody…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
How Performance Mindset Harms You
The performance mindset, that many of us abide by often results in a great deal of negative emotion. The one thing that I can recommend is to take a step back…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
How Do You Live A Good Life?
Once you deconstruct what most people do on a daily basis, you realize that there is a lot of humanity across all of us. What does it mean to be successful?…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
How To Fix The Competitive Culture Of Academia?
How do you fix the competitive culture in academia? How do you ensure that people don’t get lost and they feel rewarded? The only way that I know is to build…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Do You Want To Build Longterm Wealth?
How do you build long-term wealth? It’s a scammy question. You are right. But, if you cared about doing it right, this did not make you click and read this…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Dealing with rejection by disassociating
A great deal of dealing with rejection is not to let the arbitrariness of it affect you. The only way that I know how to deal with this arbitrariness is to…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Is Prestige In The Academic Job Market Harmful?
Is prestige status in the academic job market harmful? The harm might come from generalizing too much from these very poor indicators, and instead not taking a…