Great news!

We have received a great news today, Hamed has been awarded with 1-year UEF graduate school position (funding) for the next year, so congratulations Hamed! 😀 And even Andy, you did a great job as a beginner having the position in the waiting list. It was a great week to get back to work with you guys! 

Since I had a chance to take some time off "out of the office", I also had a chance to read a book that I bought already 1 year ago. It probably is the best book of the last year (2021): Adam Grant's Think Again. In this book Adam's describes how powerful tool the ability of re-thinking is and he mentions many times that scientists have this ability. But I must disagree with Adam, yes some of us do have it, but that is also something that we learn to do and will learn until the end. I takes an effort, so we shouldn't take it for granted for having the ability to re-think, just because we are scientist, but we should highly value it. 

This also brought another related issue in my mind, that I discovered couple of years ago, the power of not knowing yet. I came across a very good speech in youtube, but I cannot find it anymore, as I don't remember the presenter, but by googling you can find a lot of interesting writings and videos of the topic. So I think this is also another important feature of the scientist, to understand that more we explore, the more we understand how little we actually understand. But that's the great driving force in the science!