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Ten Secrets to Success in Graduate School
Joel Sobel
University of California, San DiegoInstitut d’Anàlisi Econòmica
October 5, 2006
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Introduction
Economics takes a while to learn, even if much of it isin a way quite simple. It is simple to be wrong as wellas to be right, and it is none too easy to distinguishbetween them.
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NEVER TRUST THE TITLE
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I. NO ONE WANTS YOU TO FAIL
If they can get you asking the wrong questions theydon’t have to worry about answers.
In fact,
There are enough good research topics (and shared officespace) for all of you.People have an interest in seeing you succeed.Persecuting individual students is not worth the effort.
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I. NO ONE WANTS YOU TO FAIL
If they can get you asking the wrong questions theydon’t have to worry about answers.
In fact,
There are enough good research topics (and shared officespace) for all of you.People have an interest in seeing you succeed.Persecuting individual students is not worth the effort.
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I. NO ONE WANTS YOU TO FAIL
If they can get you asking the wrong questions theydon’t have to worry about answers.
In fact,
There are enough good research topics (and shared officespace) for all of you.People have an interest in seeing you succeed.Persecuting individual students is not worth the effort.
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Exception:
The powerful staff person you just offended.
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Exception:
The powerful staff person you just offended.
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II. YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING (YET)
The persuasion that one’s own infallibility is a mythleads by easy stages and with somewhat greatersatisfaction to a refusal to ascribe infallibility to others.
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II. YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING (YET)
The persuasion that one’s own infallibility is a mythleads by easy stages and with somewhat greatersatisfaction to a refusal to ascribe infallibility to others.
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III. WORK – AND PLAY – WITH CLASSMATES
So much in commonYou learn more from classmates than professors.
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III. WORK – AND PLAY – WITH CLASSMATES
So much in commonYou learn more from classmates than professors.
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III. WORK – AND PLAY – WITH CLASSMATES
So much in commonYou learn more from classmates than professors.
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IV. FIGURE OUT WHAT IS IMPORTANT
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Life is short. You are smart. Use time wisely.Learn how to minimize the time you spend listening to badlectures or reading bad articles.
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IV. FIGURE OUT WHAT IS IMPORTANT
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Life is short. You are smart. Use time wisely.Learn how to minimize the time you spend listening to badlectures or reading bad articles.
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IV. FIGURE OUT WHAT IS IMPORTANT
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Life is short. You are smart. Use time wisely.Learn how to minimize the time you spend listening to badlectures or reading bad articles.
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V. THESE ARE THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Youth is Wasted on the Young.
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V. THESE ARE THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Youth is Wasted on the Young.
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VI. RESEARCH IS HARD TO DO
There is no method except to be very intelligent.
Start EarlyGo to Seminars (sleeping OK)Talk to Advanced Students, FacultyMake ContactsSkim JournalsRemember Why you Came to Graduate School
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VI. RESEARCH IS HARD TO DO
There is no method except to be very intelligent.
Start EarlyGo to Seminars (sleeping OK)Talk to Advanced Students, FacultyMake ContactsSkim JournalsRemember Why you Came to Graduate School
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VI. RESEARCH IS HARD TO DO
There is no method except to be very intelligent.
Start EarlyGo to Seminars (sleeping OK)Talk to Advanced Students, FacultyMake ContactsSkim JournalsRemember Why you Came to Graduate School
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VI. RESEARCH IS HARD TO DO
There is no method except to be very intelligent.
Start EarlyGo to Seminars (sleeping OK)Talk to Advanced Students, FacultyMake ContactsSkim JournalsRemember Why you Came to Graduate School
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VI. RESEARCH IS HARD TO DO
There is no method except to be very intelligent.
Start EarlyGo to Seminars (sleeping OK)Talk to Advanced Students, FacultyMake ContactsSkim JournalsRemember Why you Came to Graduate School
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VI. RESEARCH IS HARD TO DO
There is no method except to be very intelligent.
Start EarlyGo to Seminars (sleeping OK)Talk to Advanced Students, FacultyMake ContactsSkim JournalsRemember Why you Came to Graduate School
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VII. GOOD RESEARCH PROJECTS ARE INVISIBLE
All there is to thinking, he said, is seeing somethingnoticeable which makes you see something youweren’t noticing which makes you see something thatisn’t even visible.
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VII. GOOD RESEARCH PROJECTS ARE INVISIBLE
All there is to thinking, he said, is seeing somethingnoticeable which makes you see something youweren’t noticing which makes you see something thatisn’t even visible.
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VIII. EVERYTHING IS A RESEACH TOPIC
You’ll reply that reality hasn’t the least obligation to beinteresting. And I’ll answer you that reality may avoidthat obligation but that hypotheses may not.
Usted replicará que la realidad no tiene la menorobligación de ser interesante. Yo le replicaré que larealidad puede prescindir de esa obligación, pero nolas hipótesis.
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VIII. EVERYTHING IS A RESEACH TOPIC
You’ll reply that reality hasn’t the least obligation to beinteresting. And I’ll answer you that reality may avoidthat obligation but that hypotheses may not.
Usted replicará que la realidad no tiene la menorobligación de ser interesante. Yo le replicaré que larealidad puede prescindir de esa obligación, pero nolas hipótesis.
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VIII. EVERYTHING IS A RESEACH TOPIC
You’ll reply that reality hasn’t the least obligation to beinteresting. And I’ll answer you that reality may avoidthat obligation but that hypotheses may not.
Usted replicará que la realidad no tiene la menorobligación de ser interesante. Yo le replicaré que larealidad puede prescindir de esa obligación, pero nolas hipótesis.
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IX. KEEP THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE . . .
Do not let us overestimate the importance of theeconomic problem, or sacrifice to its supposednecessities other matters of greater and morepermanent significance. It should be a matter forspecialists - like dentistry. If economists could manageto get themselves thought of as humble, competentpeople, on a level with dentists, that would besplendid.
. . . after you have finished.
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IX. KEEP THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE . . .
Do not let us overestimate the importance of theeconomic problem, or sacrifice to its supposednecessities other matters of greater and morepermanent significance. It should be a matter forspecialists - like dentistry. If economists could manageto get themselves thought of as humble, competentpeople, on a level with dentists, that would besplendid.
. . . after you have finished.
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IX. KEEP THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE . . .
Do not let us overestimate the importance of theeconomic problem, or sacrifice to its supposednecessities other matters of greater and morepermanent significance. It should be a matter forspecialists - like dentistry. If economists could manageto get themselves thought of as humble, competentpeople, on a level with dentists, that would besplendid.
. . . after you have finished.
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X. KEEP THINGS SIMPLE
Always Use the Right Tool for the Job
Do you think that this advice is easy to follow?
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X. KEEP THINGS SIMPLE
Always Use the Right Tool for the Job
Do you think that this advice is easy to follow?
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X. KEEP THINGS SIMPLE
Always Use the Right Tool for the Job
Do you think that this advice is easy to follow?
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NO
Is there any reason why I gave this presentation using a slideshow?
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Is there any reason why I gave this presentation using a slideshow?
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References
Halmos: Selecta, expository writings, Vol. 2, Springer, NewYork, 1983. “How to Talk Mathematics" and “How to WriteMathematics."Hamermesh: Several articles available on his webpage:http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Hamermesh/AdviceforEconomists.htmThomson: “A Guide for the Young Economist," M.I.T.Press, 2001.
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Just in Case You Forgot . . .
1 No One Wants You to Fail2 You Don’t Need to Know Everything (Yet)3 Work – and Play – With Classmates4 Figure Out What is Important5 These are the Good Old Days6 Research is Hard to Do7 Good Research Topics are Invisible8 Everything is a Research Topic9 Keep Things in Perspective . . . After You Have Finished
10 Keep Things Simple
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Economics takes a while to learn, even if much of it isin a way quite simple. It is simple to be wrong as wellas to be right, and it is none too easy to distinguishbetween them.
Jim Mirrless
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Economics takes a while to learn, even if much of it isin a way quite simple. It is simple to be wrong as wellas to be right, and it is none too easy to distinguishbetween them.
Jim Mirrless
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions theydon’t have to worry about answers.
Thomas Pynchon
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If they can get you asking the wrong questions theydon’t have to worry about answers.
Thomas Pynchon
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The persuasion that one’s own infallibility is a mythleads by easy stages and with somewhat greatersatisfaction to a refusal to ascribe infallibility to others.
Benjamin Cardozo
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The persuasion that one’s own infallibility is a mythleads by easy stages and with somewhat greatersatisfaction to a refusal to ascribe infallibility to others.
Benjamin Cardozo
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield
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Youth is Wasted on the Young.
George Bernard Shaw
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Youth is Wasted on the Young.
George Bernard Shaw
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There is no method except to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot
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There is no method except to be very intelligent.
T. S. Eliot
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All there is to thinking, he said, is seeing somethingnoticeable which makes you see something youweren’t noticing which makes you see something thatisn’t even visible.
Norman MacLean
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All there is to thinking, he said, is seeing somethingnoticeable which makes you see something youweren’t noticing which makes you see something thatisn’t even visible.
Norman MacLean
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You’ll reply that reality hasn’t the least obligation to beinteresting. And I’ll answer you that reality may avoidthat obligation but that hypotheses may not.
Usted replicará que la realidad no tiene la menorobligación de ser interesante. Yo le replicaré que larealidad puede prescindir de esa obligación, pero nolas hipótesis.
Jorge Luis Borges
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You’ll reply that reality hasn’t the least obligation to beinteresting. And I’ll answer you that reality may avoidthat obligation but that hypotheses may not.
Usted replicará que la realidad no tiene la menorobligación de ser interesante. Yo le replicaré que larealidad puede prescindir de esa obligación, pero nolas hipótesis.
Jorge Luis Borges
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You’ll reply that reality hasn’t the least obligation to beinteresting. And I’ll answer you that reality may avoidthat obligation but that hypotheses may not.
Usted replicará que la realidad no tiene la menorobligación de ser interesante. Yo le replicaré que larealidad puede prescindir de esa obligación, pero nolas hipótesis.
Jorge Luis Borges
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Do not let us overestimate the importance of theeconomic problem, or sacrifice to its supposednecessities other matters of greater and morepermanent significance. It should be a matter forspecialists - like dentistry. If economists could manageto get themselves thought of as humble, competentpeople, on a level with dentists, that would besplendid.
J. M. Keynes
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Do not let us overestimate the importance of theeconomic problem, or sacrifice to its supposednecessities other matters of greater and morepermanent significance. It should be a matter forspecialists - like dentistry. If economists could manageto get themselves thought of as humble, competentpeople, on a level with dentists, that would besplendid.
J. M. Keynes
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Always Use the Right Tool for the Job
Mr. Natural
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Always Use the Right Tool for the Job
Mr. Natural
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CONSELL SIMPLE
cal anar poc a poc i amb bona lletra.
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CONSELL SIMPLE
cal anar poc a poc i amb bona lletra.
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