{"id":5024,"date":"2010-11-04T12:33:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T10:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=5024"},"modified":"2011-01-13T08:45:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T06:45:25","slug":"science-success-sucks-sometimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2010\/11\/science-success-sucks-sometimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Science success sucks (sometimes)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leo at zenhabits <\/a>has a great new piece:<\/p>\n

\nWhy I don\u2019t care about success. \u2018Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.\u2019 (Albert Einstein<\/strong>)
\nA lot of people in my field write about how to be successful, but I try to avoid it. It\u2019s just not something I believe is important. Now, that might seem weird: what kind of loser doesn\u2019t want to be successful?
\nMe. I\u2019m that loser.
\nObviously, the first problem with success is how you define success \u2026 is it becoming famous, rich, creating a world-changing business, coming up with an idea that changes people\u2019s lives, helping others, being happy? So many people with values similar to mine would reject the traditional definitions of success: being rich or famous or having a best-selling book or creating a huge business is not all there is to life.
\nAnd those people are right, in my book. If all you\u2019re striving for is money, you\u2019ll do horrible things to get it. If all you want is a successful business, you\u2019ll screw people over to get it. If all you want is fame, you\u2019ll give up your dignity to achieve it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a different language, applied to science but under the same angle another piece at academics.de today<\/a><\/p>\n

\nAls \u00bbprojektorientierte Polis\u00ab beschrieben die beiden franz\u00f6sischen Soziologen Luc Boltanski und Eve Chiapello die Gesellschaft, wie sie sich nach 1968 entwickelte. In dieser Polis ist das Leben nicht mehr als eine Abfolge von Projekten: zeitlich begrenzt, netzerweiternd und darauf ausgelegt, die Umwelt ununterbrochen nach Innovationsm\u00f6glichkeiten abzusuchen. Dieser Existenzmodus dominiert inzwischen auch das Universit\u00e4tssystem…
\nForschung findet in Projekten statt, sie ist kaum mehr ein kontinuierlicher Prozess des \u00bbBei einer Sache Bleibens\u00ab. Es gibt zweckgebundene \u00bbProjektmittel\u00ab, aber praktisch keine zweckfreien Forschungsmittel mehr. Studiert und unterrichtet wird im Rahmen einer eng bemessenen \u00bbRegelstudienzeit\u00ab, beides will verwaltet sein – mit einem hohen Termindruck auf die Wissenschaft: Wenn ein Projekt beginnt, ist das n\u00e4chste zu beantragen…
\nDie Folgen sind besorgniserregend: Das Personal, die gesamte Institution weist Spuren eines \u00bborganizational burnouts\u00ab auf, h\u00f6chste Leistungsmotivation und Leistungsf\u00e4higkeit kippen und f\u00fchren in einen totalen Selbstverlust. Dies ist buchst\u00e4blich t\u00f6dlich f\u00fcr das Konzept des Gelehrten…\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Science that is only organized in projects, with milestones and impact points will produce only data but not value, yea, yea.<\/p>\n\n

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Leo at zenhabits has a great new piece: Why I don\u2019t care about success. \u2018Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.\u2019 (Albert Einstein) A lot of people in my field write about how to be successful, but I try to avoid it. It\u2019s just not … Continue reading Science success sucks (sometimes)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[2670,2671],"class_list":["post-5024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note-worthy","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-impact-factor","tag-success-fallacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5024"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5447,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5024\/revisions\/5447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}