“Where You See Difficulty, I See Opportunity”

“Where you see difficulty, I see opportunity”, Einstein

The main thing I love about my job .. teaching. To be a teacher to someone is one of the most precious things we have in our lives. A teacher for in instance can change someone’s life. And, of course, as a professor, my other passion is research, and the acquiring of new knowledge. And, not so much … administration and those pointless meetings that waste hours of your life.

At our core, we are driven by learning, and our core desire to continually learn. We make mistakes, and we get things wrong, but we learn, and we become better for it. Without learning, we are soulless creatures. If the lazy way to short-circuit learning is at the click of a button, we are on a spiral downward, and where we are cheating ourselves and the future next generations. And, so,

Doing research is not just for academics

It is unfortunate that research is increasingly seen as an academic thing. It has become a machine to produce PhD graduates — who serve their apprenticeship to show that they can be real researchers. For some reason, industry-based research has faded a little, as academics have muscled in on the whole peer-review process for paper publishing. This has — perhaps — produced a gulf between those doing…