キャリアニュース2020年8月27日～9月6日

It was a sunny Friday afternoon, and my smiling labmates were heading home for the weekend. I, however, was glumly sitting in Tristan's office, staring at the spreadsheet on which we had outlined our goals for the week. I shaded my cells red; I had not been able to complete any of them. I was disappointed in myself. Tristan gave me a reassuring smile, reminding me not to beat myself up too much. “It's OK to be ambitious, but make sure your three weekly goals are realistic and measurable,” he advised. It was guidance I was still learning to follow. > “‘Make sure your three weekly goals are realistic and measurable,’ he advised.” Halfway through my second year of grad school, I had been feeling overwhelmed by a sea of experimental failures and lost without the structure I was accustomed to as an undergrad. When my mentor Tristan—a postdoc—saw that I was struggling, he suggested an approach from an unlikely source: his experience in the world of elite sport. Introduced to him by a co