R3ciprocity.com - Prof David Maslach: Innovation; Research Life; Striving Towards Happiness
Episodes
Be You. Be Awesome.
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
You are already #remarkable—You don’t need to “perfect” or improve anything. Rather than look for ways to be more productive, succeed, or any...
Practice Not Taking Yourself So Seriously
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Negative events will happen in your life. The more that you disassociate and detached from these negative events, the more likely that you’re gonna ...
You Need Support Groups & Positive Self Talk For Success
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t forget that you need a lot of positive self-talk and a supportive group to allow you to be successful. Doing well is not just about getting t...
How to Find Supportive People
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Finding support is often challenging.
You Cannot Control The Unfairness Of Life, But You Can Control Your Actions
22 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Life's unfairness doesn't ask for permission; it just shows up, throwing obstacles in our path that seem insurmountable. The world of #academia is no ...
I’m Tired. Building a Platform Is Hard.
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the fact that I don’t want to get up and do this yet again, I will try. It’s one more time that I put something out that only a few peopl...
Are We Comparing Apples To Oranges?
21 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t compare apples to oranges. Just because they are round, doesn’t mean they are the same.
You Can Accomplish A Lot In 3 Decades
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we often think that our job is to move the dial in the next year. And almost all of my experience, that dialed does not move that much in a given year...
There is Never One Cause
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are often taught from a very young age that there is a single solution to a problem, yet this is rarely the case in that solutions come from many d...
What Can You Actually Do About It?
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What can you actually do about it? Most people will not care about the thing that you’re thinking about, a small fraction will be so upset that al...
When You Know Your Work Will NOT Be Rewarded
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are many moments where your work will not get rewarded. This is a fact of life. Your job is not to focus on the outcomes, but the focus on your...
Start As Small As Possible For Entrepreneurship
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve been increasingly convinced that starting incredibly small is far better for entrepreneurship than starting bigger.
Sometimes You Have To Work Within The Constraints You Are Given
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Often you have to work within the constraints that you are given. You might not agree with these constraints, but it’s a part of making hard decisio...
Don’t Miss Out On The Digital Economy
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you missing out on digital changes in the economy? We tend to default to what we know when there are macro changes that are going on. The digita...
Analyzing Data Is Just Damn Hard
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Analyzing all data is difficult, and until you get the experience of looking at data and trying to make sense of it, you will always under appreciate ...
When You Explore Life Expect Inconsistencies In Your Identity
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I grew up with the smell of tanning beaver pelts in our basement, eating moosemeat, and snaring rabbits. Then, I became a business professor. When y...
Living Below What You Make Always Hurts
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Living below what you make is always a challenging thing for all of us. We have challenges of social comparison, the pain of giving up joy today, an...
Most Things Are Slow and You Cannot Change That
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most things are really slow and you can’t change that. Many things in life are simply a slow step-by-step process that you can’t hurry up. There’...
How Many People Can I Get To Feel Happy Or Good Inside?
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
how many people can you get to feel happy inside? What might that look like if you work with the premise that you are going to try to make other peopl...
Every Project That Is Important Will Test Your Faith
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every project that is meaningful to you will result at some point where you lose faith in yourself. Losing faith is a fundamental and important part...
I Worry About The Lack Of Interest In The Day To Day
27 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I worry about our lack of understanding of the day-to-day in the business world. We tend to discount things that are ordinary, and that are representa...
Practicing Self Forgiveness Helps Me Do Better Everyday
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Take advantage of the little time that you have. That means taking care of yourself, spending time with family, and looking for moments to work. My...
Strategy Plays A Much Smaller Role Than Action & Your Endowments
24 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Constantly putting in the work often get you further along then thinking about putting in the work. Where are you end up in life often is dictated mo...
Our Predictions Are Often Poor
23 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our predictions are often very poor, and we have to make do with these poor predictions. Knowing that we’re not gonna be good at making good predic...
Focus On Efforts, Not Outcomes
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Focus on the fact that you’re doing “something,” rather than any of the outcomes that you’re ever going to get from it. Focusing on “outcom...
Where Are The Plumbers & Babysitters In Business Case Studies?
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
explain some of the challenges of why we often don’t see some businesses being represented in business research. We need to more openly talk about t...
Why Can’t You?
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why can’t you? I have learned that most of us talk ourselves out of great things. Before you start, you say “ that would be a great idea, but…”...
Do Cringey Things
17 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do Cringey Things. It is only after a while that you realize that they are not cringey after all.
Careerism In Academia: Zero Correlation Between Work and Outcomes
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I am convinced that there’s zero to negligible correlation between effort in outcomes in academia. This allows me to focus on other things that giv...
The World Is Going To Hell… Actually We Are Blessed.
16 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many moments you wake up, and you have a very negative view of the world. I want you to remind yourself, and just how fortunate that we actually are....
Fragile Nature Of Data: Let’s Just Be Honest
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most people do not understand the #fragile nature of data. I often don’t think it’s on the data analyst or author’s side that we need to worry a...
Empowering Scientists: Lottery-based Funding System! | Karim Lakhani | Harvard Business Professsor
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two distinguished scholars, Dr. David Maslach and Professor Karim Lakhani, engage in a dynamic conversation about innovation, science, and mentorship....
Many Days You Are Not Going To Feel Good
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Many days you’re not going to feel good, and you can’t change those days and can’t change your environment that makes you feel like that very qu...
Are You Serious? Are You Serious About Research?
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Are you serious? Are you serious about #research?” This question is seared into my brain, and still rings in my ears. I remember one of my adv...
Learn How To Detach From The Want Of Things
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Learn how to attach from things you want. It’s not a matter of whether you can get them, it’s whether you should get them right now.
Have Patience And Slow Down Your Pace
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We need more people telling others to have patience, be nice, and don’t take #shortcuts. Most role models today are focused on doing things quickly...
You Have Excuses
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
stop, making excuses, and get at it.
Puppy Bowl: Genius Marketing
10 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The puppy bowl is absolute genius, marketing. They took a channel during an event that would have had poor ratings, and perhaps turned it into the mos...
Communicate Your Message In A Sideways Way
09 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do not communicate your message directly! No one cares about you. I have repeatedly learned about the importance of what I call “sideways communica...
We All Have Our Thing. Everyone Sucks
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We all suck. Don’t forget that.
Financial Stability During Your PhD Gives You Walk Away Power
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
making sure that you’re working towards financial stability. Will allow you to walk away from everything that you do, and allow you to give some pea...
Why Having Purpose In Science Is Important - Christopher Redding - Senior Scientist @ Woods Hole
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I spoke to one of the world's leading scientific experts on oil spills. Chris Reddy, an oceanographic, is one amazing person, and understands the cult...
Financial planning is an important part of success
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get a financial planner to do well in your career.
Be At Peace. Accept Who You Are
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Be at peace with who you are. My whole life I have wanted “people to like me” and to fit in. That is why I got into education and #scienceandtech...
I Need To Go Where I Am Going Too Quickly
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As a #professor, I need to get to where I’m going often too quickly. I don’t know “where” I’m going, but I need to get there fast. If I t...
I Was Never Meant To Do This
03 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I was never meant to do this. I strongly believe that if you have those feelings to embrace them and try to figure out what you’re actually about. T...
Neoclassical Economics & Strategic Thinking Is Likely Wrong
02 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
#PhD students in business are taught to #strategize in their career. I think it’s the worst thing we can do. I have grown frustrated with the neoc...
Slow Down To Speed Up
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
most major moments of your life, and even within each day, just require you to slow down and not get panicky. The analogy that I like to give is that ...
You Don’t Need To Define Yourself As The Best
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I am not the best, nor will I ever will be. We define ourselves by being the “best” in any particular category. Once you’ve been living life ...
What Do You Choose To Fill Your Tank?
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Everybody has something that they used to fill their tank. What do you use to fill your tank? For me, I’m learning Italian, exercise, and watch TV ...
Fight Against The Negativity In Your Life
30 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Life requires you to often manage #negativity in your life. One of the things that has been important to me is realizing that my thoughts are often in...
Dear International Students: Try This Method To Get Into Research Careers
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is how we tackle an application to a foreign researcher, so that you have far better odds of getting into graduate school then what is happening ...
Don’t be Shy: Change Your Life
28 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t be so shy, and change your life out and being yourself. All of those things you’re afraid of you’re not as serious as you think they are.
But You Don’t Understand. I Need To Get This Done
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
you don’t understand. I need to get this done. Those are the words that I often hear by people that are not centered. Many people that feel more ce...
My Parents Were Wonderful: My Default Is Love
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My default will always be choosing an environment of love and compassion. I was privileged to be part of a family that had that.
Navigating Uncertainty In A Market
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does one navigate #uncertainty in a market? Honestly, there’s no right way. We presume that there is a strategic way, but in most cases, it ju...
Market Feedback And Doing Everything Right
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
in school, we thought that we’re gonna get feedback almost every day. You do an assignment, a teacher, and you get to see how you did. You get regul...
Don’t Let It Have Power Over You
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
we all have traits that we feel bad about. If you have strong negative emotions, and you can’t openly talk about it, it means that it has power over...
Follow your passion
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Follow your passion” they say. I don’t have a passion, and neither do “they.” #Academics are supposed to have a #passion for research. #M...
Management By Fear Vs. Management By Understanding
20 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Much of modern management, and the outcome-based focus of management is an economic logic of management by fear. If you’ve done things, right, then ...
Strategy Professor is an ironic oxymoron
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“#Strategy #Professor” is an ironic oxymoron. I am a Strategy Professor. This implies that I must “profess” some understanding about the worl...
Striving, Even In Your 70s
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a lot of people that have given up. They don’t feel like they should try. But, the amount of potential that you have even when you get ol...
On the messiness of data in research
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
almost all data is very messy, and requires a great deal of effort to work with it. We need to be more open and honest, with the messiness of the real...
My Life As An Outsider In Academia
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Much of my experience is my life, feeling like an outsider in academia, and feeling like I never quite fit in. Because of this, I always want other p...
Work Together As Team In A Family
16 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Work together as a team in a family. Knowing that everybody works as a team, but you have boundaries is an important part of a healthy relationship. ...
The Humble Professor
13 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
much of being a professor is admitting that you’re good enough as you are.
Are Academic Tenure Track Jobs Dying?
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I contemplate whether academic tenure track jobs are dying, and what this means for anybody that is thinking about going into the career. I suggest r...
When you believe that people are talking behind your back
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When you believe that other people are talking behind your back, you have to take a step back and realize that everybody is self interested in there l...
Is There A Single Best Answer To Business Success?
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
is there a singular best answer to business success, and question and think about our world in the sense of a puristic world that is constantly changi...
Are You Helping Too Much In Your Organization?
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are you helping too much in your organization? Does it feel like you’re getting penalized for doing what you believe is right? I think it is import...
The financial returns of podcasting
06 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I talk about the financial returns of podcasting or anything else in life. It’s often that you don’t get a one-to-one conversion in terms of the e...
Good luck to You!
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Learning how to say, it’s not my problem or good luck to you isn’t important, skill set. Learning how to say good luck to you is a recognition of...
Do We Really Have A Choice?
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Do we really have a choice, I think out loud about whether we actually have choices in life and then give you some ways to think about the fact that w...
How We Are All Measured
03 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Much of our life has now being distilled down to numbers and metrics. #Academics are measured by often a single number. You often can’t change the ...
2024: You Can’t Drown Out Optimism
02 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite encountering actions from individuals with less than honorable intentions and those who spread #negativity, it's important to recognize that t...
Should Investors Care About Who They Give Their Money To?
29 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Should investors care about who they actually give their monies to? The answer is that if you’re worried about your individual portfolio firms, you’...
My Faith In Scientific Process Is Very Low
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My faith in the scientific review process of generating results that are meaningful is actually very low. I talk about what this actually means and wh...
Be Able To Detach
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Being able to detach is an important skillset. This includes being independent of most things that we can grow dependencies on, such as money, relat...
Learning how to be assertive in science and research
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The longer I’ve been in the profession as a researcher, the more I realize that how I conduct myself in terms of being a passivist or submissive, th...
Jack Goncalo: Professor Of Creativity
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about academic life, what it means to be a creative, and how are you fit in when you feel like you never fit in. We talk about the courage it...
Just As Long As You Work At It
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Just as long as you’re working at it, I think that’s all that really matters. Most people will rather sit on the sidelines and think about how th...
Make It Happen
23 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Make it happen. Doing large projects requires a conscious effort, and the only way that you can accomplish things is just to make it happen. I don...
How To Get To Millions? Start Small.
22 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Almost all of the self-help and financial management pop-culture books, and even the academic literature, assumes people are far more motivated than w...
New Feature On R3ciprocity: Clustering Of Papers For Conferences And Classrooms
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I talk about a new feature that we are building into the R3ciprocity platform that will hopefully aid people in their classrooms and as well as confer...
Age, Wisdom, & Beauty
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
we need to be careful not to use external characteristics that are easy to observe, and use characteristics that are much more deeper and more align w...
Much Needed Inspiration
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You get up and you do it anyways. No matter how it feels and what you’re going through, you put in the work to actually get to where you’re going ...
How Performance Mindset Harms You
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The performance mindset, that many of us abide by often results in a great deal of negative emotion. The one thing that I can recommend is to take a s...
How Do You Live A Good Life?
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Once you deconstruct what most people do on a daily basis, you realize that there is a lot of humanity across all of us. What does it mean to be succ...
How To Fix The Competitive Culture Of Academia?
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do you fix the competitive culture in academia? How do you ensure that people don’t get lost and they feel rewarded? The only way that I know i...
Do You Want To Build Longterm Wealth?
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do you build long-term wealth? It’s a scammy question. You are right. But, if you cared about doing it right, this did not make you click and r...
Dealing with rejection by disassociating
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A great deal of dealing with rejection is not to let the arbitrariness of it affect you. The only way that I know how to deal with this arbitrarines...
Is Prestige In The Academic Job Market Harmful?
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Is prestige status in the academic job market harmful? The harm might come from generalizing too much from these very poor indicators, and instead not...
Entrepreneurs & Innovators As Heroes
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The conception of entrepreneurs and innovators as heroic in modern society, is far from the truth. It’s often the complete opposite and you feel lon...
I Want A Sparkle In My Eye
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My view of #management has completely changed in the last few years period. I used to think that there was only so many resources that went around a...
What Does A Multimillionaire Look Like?
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do you become a multimillionaire? What does that actually look like? Often you’ll find that people that have an extraordinary amount of wealth a...
Why Don’t More People Want To Become Billionaires?
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Becoming a billionaire is absolutely possible as a normal person. There is just two things: Invest a significant portion of your income, and do this f...
Academic Research Is Unfair, But You Don’t Give Up
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Much of academic research is unfair. You might be doing everything right and you make a little progress. You can only make small dents on this unfair...
Is Higher Education Dying?
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The way that higher education existed is likely changing, and we have to come to terms with these changing norms because of the democratic access of i...
The Mistakes We Make
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest mistakes that I’ve ever made is thinking about how I can get approval or acceptance from other people. I have done a lot of vent...
Entrepreneurship is never legitimate
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you are entrepreneurial, or that are innovative, you will rarely fit in with the world. You have to get used to feeling like an outsider, or that y...