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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
You don’t always have to make rational choices and be efficient
For me, I often think about myself in terms of #efficiency, and as if I am a machine. This machine runs perfectly at 95% capacity at all times. However, that’s…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
The Angle Perspective Of Business Strategy
Rather than focusing on product differentiation or competitive advantage, I believe that having gumption is the key to long-term success. Gumption can be…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Do people inherently like to learn? No
do people inherently, like to learn, and pursue things around learning for the fun of it? I would argue that this is a rare situation, and most people are not…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Being entrepreneurial will mean that you stick out and you don’t conform
Being an entrepreneur comes with a unique set of challenges. As a risk-taker, you may find yourself making decisions that differ from what is considered…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
you have unique gifts that other people don’t
One of the challenges that I face is that I often feel like a loser, and I have very little to give. However, I think it’s important to remind everybody that…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Use emotions as indicators
emotions are our super powers. Not everybody feels emotions the same way that you do, but you can often use emotions as indicators of some thing is occurring…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Just putting in the motions is better than when everybody else does
even on the days when you don’t feel like you’re doing OK, you just show up and put in that motion. Just showing up, is better than when everybody else does…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Everybody has something to say
We need to start embracing our voices, and being proud of you in the small conversations that we have. There’s at least one person in this world that likes…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Do you have more knowledge than you think?
we often feel like we don’t have a lot of knowledge when you’re searching or discovering new things. However, when you go and look back and what you actually…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Why I am a fan of diversity & inclusion
When I was growing up, my dad was a Polish immigrant. By de facto, I eat, cabbage, meat, and boiled potatoes every day. If we had boiled potatoes the night…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
I keep getting ghosted in PhD interviews
How do you deal with getting ghosted in PhD interviews? I help you deal with getting ghosted, and prevent you from getting ghosted in the future but you doing…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Focus on the positive aspects of each generation
Let's focus on the positive traits of each generation. The younger generation values empathy and equality, while the older generation values hard work and…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Why do you moments of grape thought disappear?
why do you moments of great time disappear? There’s many times in history where there is a renaissance of ideas, both within regions and within companies. The…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Don’t be greedy. Give openly to get more.
Get in the practice of giving openly. What you don’t realize is that giving is often at the heart of growing influence, whether it is in the real world or…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
What is more important? Strategy or behavior?
Do we actually need to have #strategies? I wonder if you simply just have to keep moving, and keep trying every day. It might be more worthwhile to focus on…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
How to process and think about disasters
How to process and think about disasters that you see. The challenge is to know what you should do in response. I think any possible response in terms of the…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Whether you eat lobster or spaghetti dinners, it doesn’t matter in the end anyways
Whether you eat lobsters or spaghetti dinners has a little impact on your life. For me, mostly as long as I get to hang out with family and friends, and get to…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Misunderstanding the tenure process
Many people misunderstand the tenure process and believe it is a job for life. It is far from the idea that it’s a job for life. The tenure process is more of…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Thinking about failure, minimization, and modularity in purchasing decisions
Purchasing decisions are a critical part of our daily lives, and we often base them on things like status and recognition. However, an alternative approach to…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Be careful generalizing from other peoples success
The only thing that matters is doing incremental, slow, and boring work. You don’t get fast returns in anything, and you should be a little afraid of anything…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Incremental, Boring Work is where is that
much of human progress is about doing incremental, boring work repeatedly. If we think about all of the major human accomplishments, that we know of today…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Practice stoicism in your career
practice stoicism in your career by removing the outside world. You just trying to be yourself, no matter what the outside world thinks of you. Moreover…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Integrity and doing your best every day matters
integrity and doing your best every day matters. Just repeat to do your best. A lot of days does not feel like that but that’s the only option that we actually…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
You just have to help one person
Focus on #helping one person, even if it's just yourself. Don't aim for a big impact. This is just dumb. Who cares about you anyway? Your mom and partner, at…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Vertigo Burger is the best burger place in Tallahassee
our favorite burger joint in Tallahassee is vertical burger. It’s bougie, yet not overwhelming. It has the absolute best burgers and fries that are homemade…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Most of us get by with very little understanding and that’s OK
Most of us manage daily life with a limited understanding of the world around us. Even experts in a certain field only have a general knowledge in other areas…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
We need to work on patience
Always have more patience. be able to put in the work every day, even when distance, feel like you’re getting anywhere. The goal is not to make progress today…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Train yourself to look for opportunities
train yourself to always look for opportunities and be positive with those opportunities. The only way that you see opportunities is if you believe you…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
I told you so
and become so used to filing the I told you so in my head has become a ritual. People will cramp on me for any number of reasons, and I get to file it away. I…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Ideas are constructed and then turn into real physical things
The physical world around us is simply just an artifact of a random idea that somebody tripped up. We define our world based on the physical things, but the…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Allow people to flourish on their own terms
I think we need to start with the idea that everybody is different. How we grow as individuals, organizations, and societies is to recognize that everybody is…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Get comfortable learning uncomfortable things
Learn uncomfortable things. Often you grow as a person when you learn things that you think are irrelevant, or made you feel uncomfortable at the time. You…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Ambiguity in working effectively
deciding what you should work on, is often more challenging and deciding to actually work. There’s never quite a clear answer in what is the best possible…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Financial management matters in the long run
I talk about the importance of personal financial management, and how this matters in the long run. It seems when you’re doing it in the short run to be…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Is it the role or the person?
is it the role or the person that is leading to the behavior? Many of us are in different roles in society, and when we see certain behaviors, we often…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Keep taking those steps no matter if you feel that they’re below you
Taking steps forward can be difficult, but it's important to remember that most of the steps you take will feel like they are below you. This is just part of…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Planning to become empty-nesters
As a parent, your focus shifts from supporting and guiding your kids to adapting to their growing independence. This change can be challenging to navigate, but…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Just keep busy
Just keep doing things and putting good into the world as much as you possibly can. Idle moments lead to mind wondering that is not good for you in any sort of…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Realizing that it’s not your problem
At the micro scale, I have to realize that I can’t fix everybody’s problems. But at the macro scale, I can have a big impact because of the problem of self…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Documenting the emotions of academic research, and comparisons to the trucking industry
I document the emotions that you might go through as a #academic researcher based on my own experience. You will have moments of high stress, such as #teaching…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
How do you deal with the social isolation that is caused from research?
How do you deal with the social, isolation that you feel from doing research? Been really struggling with this in the last while, and I don’t quite know what…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
You’re never too old to start
It's never too late to pursue your passions and goals. Age should not be a barrier to trying new things and enjoying life to the fullest. Imagine if you were a…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
The world is made up, so why not start making it up yourself
We make up the world around us. There are structures in place, but those structures have largely been made up by other people. Why not create the structures in…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
How do I avoid scams by thinking about long run averages
An important aspect of making wise financial choices is thanking about long run averages. If something is relatively proven, you should think about the long…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Technology will change and futures will be different
Our future is likely going to be different than how we understand it today. Rather than being pessimistic about the future, I think we need to manage the…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Is it going to break? A simple question when you purchase products.
Is it going to break? A simple question you should use when you purchase products. Ask yourself, “is it going to break, and if so, what’s going to happen when…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Think of percentages of a population, not the group
Rather than focusing on large groups, link, boomers, or millennials, focus on the percentage of people that will actually engage with what you’re doing.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Build an audience to have options
after years of the reciprocity project, I’ve come to conclude that you need to build an audience before you do much of anything. It doesn’t matter whether…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Get back up again every day
Get back up again every day. It’s not whether you actually get the outcomes, it’s whether you are actually pursued and weather in you got back up again and it…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Managing boredom in a research career
I talk about the importance of managing boredom in a research career to prevent you from feeling negative emotions. Making sure that you’re always spending…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Researchers tend to be pessimistic
researchers tend to be pessimistic, but it’s important to keep optimistic about the world. If you look at longrun trends, you often see positive improvement.
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
just pursue anything with all your heart
life. If you don’t do something you’re not going to make as much money, or you’re not going to succeed in the long run. You hear: Follow your #passion. Go…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Multi factor, authentication does not solve the problem in the long run
Having additional frustrations for humans when they interact with computers, does not solve the long-term problem, and just makes it more frustrating for…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Consistency of every day life is a gift
Having some amount of #consistency, regularity, or #everydayness is an important part of everyone’s life. When you’re younger and you’re just getting used to…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Work within the ebbs and flows of life
Your life is not meant to be maximized. It is far too many objectives in life to pick the appropriate objective. We talk about him later, fitness, routines…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
How do you deal with situations where others do not have a perspective of understanding
how do you deal with situations where others do not have a perspective of understanding? You let them have their say, and then you develop systems, and how to…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Come from her perspective of understanding
A key to remember with almost every negotiation that you have in your life is to come from your perspective of understanding. What does what do you is remove…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Invest in index funds as an insurance against yourself
The way I view index funds as a insurance against me not being able to work at some point. If you view investing as insurance against your own income stream…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
social isolation in Productivity in Academia
A direct result of a focus on productivity in #Academia leads to social isolation. The only way that we can improve productivity per person is by #isolating…
- R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
What is it like to live with ADHD as an adult?
Living with #ADHD is a #professor is challenging. You’re always forgetting things, you can’t seem to be organized, and all aspects of your life are dictated by…