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What's a time in your career when you were criticized extremely harshly by someone you respect? Did it help you or set your career back?
The following bloggers have weighed in so far:
- Retrospectacle: A Neuroscience Blog: Harsh Criticism From Someone You Respect
- Aardvarchaeology: Harsh Criticism From An Unexpected Direction
- Uncertain Principles: Ask a ScienceBlogger: "Maybe You Should Cut Your Losses"
- Dynamics of Cats: dissed by the best
- Pharyngula: Grad school was great! I recommend it to everyone!
- Good Math, Bad Math: Ask a ScienceBlogger: The Effects of Criticism
- The Corpus Callosum: Ask A ScienceBlogger: Harsh Criticism
Comments
I once took a class from Elvin Kabat, the grandfather of antibody structure. I was a mere technician at Columbia University, unsure of my graduate plans. He was reluctant to admit me to class, saying that technicians generally didn't make good graduate students, but I persevered. Then I had to give an oral presentation. He asked me a question I couldn't answer, and I tried to BS him (stupid, I know). He told me to "shut up and sit down". I thought I would die right there. After class, I looked up the correct answer, and since I worked at Columbia as a technician, I saw him later that day. Before even "hello" passed his lips, I blurted out the correct answer. After that, I could do no wrong, and boy, did I ever learn not to BS the greats!
I subsequently went on to graduate school at Cornell-Sloan Kettering, and a (more or less) successful career in research.
Go figure
SG
Posted by: Science Goddess | December 18, 2006 12:27 PM