Issue 3 Interactive Topics. # How do you relieve the stress or negative emotions on the road to scientific research? Even though I have no hair, I always declare my great and bright dream to everyone passionately, sincerely, loudly and proudly, for fear that they don’t know.

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# How do you relieve the stress or negative emotions on the road to scientific research? #

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When I was a child, I was often asked lovingly by people around me:

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"Scientist!" Growing up, I always declared my great and bright dream to everyone passionately, sincerely, loudly and proudly, for fear that they would not know. After

grew up, he was still "greeted" by people around him:

Do you have a paper? Have you evaluated your professional title? Have you been offered a teaching position? Have you applied for the fund? Have you found a postdoc? Have you passed TENURE-CHECK? What's the progress of the subject? ······

Do you have hair loss? single? Have you bought a house? ······

What is a scientist? I am just a facilitator on the road to scientific research.

In 2020, the Researcher’s Home website disclosed hourly data on website visits in the past 24 hours. Data shows that Chinese researchers work almost 24 hours a day. even from 2 o'clock to 6 o'clock. The data began to rise at 7 a.m. and reached a peak around 10:30 a.m. The lowest peak at noon is not the conventional 11:30, but around 13:00, which also implies that researchers in the field of life sciences take late lunch breaks. I didn't eat lunch on time, and then continued to be at a high level after dinner, and didn't calm down until 2 a.m.

Scientific research is difficult, scientific research is painful, and the road to scientific research is poor and embarrassing.

As a child, I was a leader in studies. Why do my scientific research results fail again and again now? Why is it so slow to produce results on my own? Why has there been no progress in my project? Obviously I have worked very hard, why is the result still so unsatisfactory? ······

All these problems are like mountains that are constantly crushing me. If you don’t have any spiritual support or any outlet to vent your emotions, you will probably be stuck in the quagmire of self-doubt and denial, self-isolation or even depression.

On the road of scientific research, we often walk slower than others. Sometimes we feel lonely because our life rhythm is inconsistent with that of our friends around us, and we experience countless failures in scientific research experiments because there is no one to guide us...

But at the same time, we may at some point suffer from scientific research problems. The results may make you as happy as a monkey, or you may become suddenly ambitious because of the beauty of the experimental results. Explore fun on the road of scientific research, find achievements in experiments, and find balance in life.

As a scientific researcher, how do you relieve the pressure or negative emotions on the road to scientific research? How do you resolve your EMO emotions on the road to scientific research? What makes you grit your teeth and persevere step by step until now?

Leave a message in the comment area to share your opinions and experiences, or listen to the learning or career mottos from fellow scientific researchers.

I hope that you who are struggling on the road of scientific research can find your own lighthouse among many colleagues and illuminate your long and difficult scientific research road in the future.