{"id":1373,"date":"2018-03-14T16:33:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T16:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/business-economics\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2020-10-14T16:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T16:57:10","slug":"you-waste-years-by-not-being-able-to-waste-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uantwerpen.be\/business-economics\/you-waste-years-by-not-being-able-to-waste-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You waste years by not being able to waste hours&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1373\" class=\"elementor elementor-1373\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c5904e5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c5904e5\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3d92667\" data-id=\"3d92667\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ea680c2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ea680c2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>In the fall of 2017 I finished my PhD and started as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. These transitions marked the end of a period filled with freedom, friendships, uncertainties and challenges. In this column I would like to look back on the nice time at the University of Antwerp through some quotes by Amos Tversky that someone recently brought to my attention.<\/strong><\/p><h2><strong>\u201cPeople live under uncertainty wh<\/strong>ether they like it or not.\u201d<\/h2><p>A PhD, and I believe research in general, involves quite some uncertainties. Starting a new research project means that the research question, methods and results are still uncertain. Whether you like it or not, these uncertainties need to be dealt with.<\/p><h2>\u201dThe difference between being very smart and very foolish is often very small.\u201d<\/h2><p>One of the major, and to me most important, uncertainties was deciding on an idea and a research question. This regularly involved asking myself whether the idea was plain stupid or genius. Most likely the answer lies somewhere in between, but hopefully you decide to work on ideas that are (close to) genius.<\/p><h2>\u201cThe secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.\u201d<\/h2><p>During the PhD, I was faced with a lot of freedom. This freedom was inspiring and could be brought into use by wasting some hours, because sometimes wasting hours can save years. This is especially true if you decide that your idea is genius while it is foolish instead.<\/p><p>Now again at the start of a new position, I face these uncertainties. I now try to make decisions under uncertainty by gaining more information to turn the uncertainty into manageable risk. 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