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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.
Episodes
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Have the courage to repeat at some thing
How do you actually get better? It’s just a repeat at some thing even though it feels awkward. Just keep trying every day until it actually gets a little…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Does the thing you’re purchasing add significant value given it cost?
Think about whether some thing in your life actually gives value to you before you make that purchase decision. If not, don’t pursue it. If it’s not going to…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Life is about you taking charge of it
Others can't push you to make progress if you don't choose to move forward. You must be in charge of your own life and realize that you're responsible for many…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Money and Being Detached by From The Outside World
An important factor about whether you do well with #money is not necessarily whether you budget or anything else like that. An important component of doing…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
The trade-off between short term hard work, and long-term perspective
Life is full of trade-offs, and it's up to us to find the perfect balance. Today, let's chat about how we can effectively prioritize short-term hard work…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Protect and put boundaries in place that make you who you are
Protect all of the basic functions and activities that you need to allow you to do well in this world. Make sure that you have #boundaries in place to ensure…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
The only person that can create change is yourself
The lesson that I repeatedly learned is that the only person that will lead to change in somebody is themselves. Another way to say this is that you cannot…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Bad experiences, and it’s detrimental effects on business performance
Business performance relies on good experiences for the consumer, even one Discover how prioritizing customer satisfaction can significantly impact your…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
You Always Feel Like An Outsider As An Immigrant
you always feel like an outsider as an immigrant in another country. How do you feel more at home? I don’t think you actually can, and you just simply have to…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Self love is central to your ability to keep going
The most important trait that I think helps me go every day, despite all the adversities, that you experience, is self-love. It’s such a squishy term, and it’s…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
How Different Are We?
many of us, believe that we are very distinct from the world around us, but if you start analyzing us in terms of basic principles, as if you were a physicist…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Do slow and tedious work every day
I've come to understand that our expectations of progress and quality work often follow a linear path. However, the reality is that improvement is more like an…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
On the nature of being human
We have to recognize that humans are not necessarily well-intentioned. When I was younger, I used to think most people are well-intentioned, and they have…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Embracing technological change in digital social media
Most of us are nervous, or find it difficult to embrace, technological change. I personally believe that much of this nervousness is because social norms are…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
The absurdity of being human in financial decisions
Humans have a charming way of making seemingly peculiar choices, especially when it comes to finances. We might spend ages deciding on a pack of gum, yet…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Thinking about the transition to a more efficient energy economy
In my latest podcast episode, I discuss the potential of transitioning to an efficient energy economy that aligns with our current infrastructure. 🏗️🌱 It's…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Walking in the rain as an analog for life
Walking in the rain always seems scary, until you actually do it. And then is one of the best experiences that you’ll ever have.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Promise and perils of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence does have some significant upsides and downsides, but much of what will happen in the future will be the result of unintended…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Exercise is my medication, and not everybody will be happy with that
Exercise as my medication: a powerful tool that enables me to function effectively on a daily basis. Some individuals may perceive my commitment to exercise as…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Being An Adult is Boring
Being an adult is boring. We should strive to be more kid like as we get older. much of what it means to be as an adult is to prioritize real work over play…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Just outlast everybody else
given that we all have different starting points, you can’t use the use others as a good reference point. It makes no sense to compare yourself against others…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Think about where you can go rather than what you did wrong
Focus on encouragement I’m thinking about ways that you could take steps forward, rather than focusing on the corrective actions of the behaviors that you did…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
We should be teaching about gumption, not with the right answers
Almost all fields in #education, presume that there is a right answer. As a consequence, we often teach (and research) that there is a single answer, or at…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Do we ever reach equilibrium?
I talk about the idea of equilibrium in a complex system.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Humans are remarkably snobbish when it comes to new technology
I find it puzzling that people are hesitant to try new and remarkable technologies, even though they could save a lot of energy and time. It's amazing how much…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
I have nothing else to say other than I appreciate you
I wanted to simply say how much I appreciate you, and that having this ability to reach out to other people that I don’t know is a gift. What an opportunity…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
How To Deal With Becoming An Associate Professor
When you become an associate #professor, many things change in your life that you didn’t think would change. The biggest thing that changed for me was my…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
A message to all of you who are afraid of starting
I encourage you to pursue your dreams. Nobody is going to make those dreams happen except for yourself. The only way that you make them happen if you start. I…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
We Need To Embrace AI & GPT
We need to vastly embrace artificial intelligence. The interesting part of artificial intelligence is it ability to replace things that nobody really likes to…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Focus on the small steps, not the big reward
You don’t get to someplace by focusing on the BIG reward that you’re going to get. You focus on the little tiny steps that it takes to get there. It seems…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Towards empathetic scientific careers
I can’t change the scientific profession. However, I can speak to the one person that was like me and struggling to get a job. The scientific endeavor is never…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
You never have enough resources, I still get comfortable with making do
All of us believe that we need resources to do some thing. We need more #resources to be more efficient at work, we need more resources to be better parents…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
You Are Who Are
You can only do what you can.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Employer expectations versus market expectations
Your #expectations for your performance are often not set by your employer. The expectations for your performance are often set by the market. But, who the…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Why are people the way they are?
We have to think about the experiences that people get, and also the non-experiences that they are not exposed to. I believe that not getting access to…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Do your best, even if it’s not much
Just do little incremental things every day. Remember you’re good enough you don’t really need to improve anything.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Should Tiktok be banned? Who will benefit?
I discuss major themes with the discussion of whether TikTok should be banned. This extremely complicated issue with many years of American culture to deal…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Assume that all technology is adopted slowly and work backwards from that.
Assume that all technology is adopted very slowly, and think about ways how you can work within that reality were things will take a lot longer than you…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
ChatGPT is a game changer for academic research
Chat GPT will change the face of how we actually interact with the world, and it will likely improve research dramatically over the next few years. It will…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
What if there is a better way in academia
the current academic research game is broken. There’s far too many people that fall through the cracks, and those people that become extraordinary successful…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
What do you do when nobody cares about that venture that you’re passionate about? Get to work.
Most new ventures in new ideas will result in no impact at all. You can sit there, and be dismayed that nobody cared about it, or you can get to work. Figure…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Getting up early and self-help
Your life does not change when you get up early or stay up late. It will naturally go to where there is a homeostasis in don’t gain extra hours by getting up…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Every venture is difficult, don’t expect anything different
Every venture that you pursue is going to be difficult, and it does not happen overnight. I don’t believe any advertising or anybody that tells you…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
I Thank My Lucky Stars I Live Today
I am deeply appreciative of the fact that I live today, and not a few generations ago. People don’t realize just how prosperous most of the world actually is…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Scientific understanding is imperfect
Our current understanding of many fields is still imperfect, despite hundreds of years of study. Most phenomena remain poorly understood, such as markets and…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
People are not as nice as you believe
rather than assuming that everybody is nice, or everybody is not so nice, let’s assume that people are very much a mixed bag. We are a mixture of many…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Efficiency is good, but sometimes inefficiency is better
In business and engineering, we aim for #efficiency by achieving the best outcome with limited resources. This involves focusing on one goal, such as…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
I Appreciate You
#PhDs and #researchers pour countless hours into their research, but unfortunately, much of their work often goes unnoticed. It's not uncommon for a PhD…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Being able to delay is a powerful alternative
Being able to delay, a purchase or action is an extremely powerful strategic choice. We often think about action, but perhaps a more powerful tool is in…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Outcomes that you observe today are the results of compounding that happened for a long time
The outcomes we see today are not just the result of our efforts alone but rather a culmination of #decisions and choices made by others. The school we attend…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
The basic function of all work is to simply try when you don’t want to
Working is never easy, no matter what particular task that you’re actually working on. From the outside world, it might seem fun and exciting, but from the…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Our general understanding of business in economics?
Our general understanding of business and economics generally is quite in need of improvement. However, it’s unlikely to happen anytime soon as much of this…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Most will not get it, but the odd one will
most will not want to resonate with what you’re saying, but you have to find those backs will match with your style. It’s not about trying to connect with…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
The only difference between you and somebody who’s made it, is that person actually made it
You have to actually will it to happen. Put on your resources in it too create the world that you actually are thinking about. It requires unbelievable…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
You are good enough
You are good enough just as you are. You don't have to conform to the outside world’s expectations or try to please others to feel worthy or #validated. The…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
We need to change the academic peer review process
We should improve the #academic peer review process to align it better with the incentives of participants. Currently, important roles such as reviewing…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Be OK with creating workarounds and research and development
Research and development always involves workarounds. Very little of what you think will happen will actually happen. You have to be OK with creating work…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
But you can move up
but you can move it if you keep dedicating yourself, and investing in yourself and other people around you. You make feel like you don’t get anywhere, but you…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
I wish I knew what I was doing, but it don’t
I wish I knew what I was doing, but it don’t. I wish I understand what I was doing, and then I can make sense of the world around me based on this definition…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
What Motivates Me To Keep Going With R3ciprocity?
There’s no other option. I just have to keep going until it actually gets done.