What do you think of when you think of the word “uncertainty”? What kinds of feelings does that trigger in you? Maybe you are thinking of the uncertainty of scientific contracts, maybe about the uncertainty and the unpredictability of research per se.
Uncertainty is a big topic in research and during your scientific career. As scientists, most of us feel comfortable handling some level of experimental uncertainty which goes along with the very idea of testing a hypothesis and figuring out how things work. But we are also - understandably - quite anxious about uncertainty in the professional environment. And we come to decisions points quite often, where uncertainty certainly (see what I did there? -wink!) plays a big role.
In this week’s episode, Daniel and talk about our experiences with uncertainty and how we have learned to embrace it and even welcome it under certain circumstances. As always, we discuss tools that have helped us move on despite uncertainty and give you examples of our dealings with uncertainty in our scientific career.
Some of the topics we discuss in this episode include:
As you can see, this is again an episode loaded with interesting information that we believe you will be able to relate to from your daily life. Now tell us about your own uncertainties!