Isn't it possible to turn your weaknesses into your strengths??

Reactor
Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:49:45 +0000

I believe that a lot of what we call “passion” in science boils down to whether you’ve been exposed to the “scientific type” of thinking and whether you’re ready to exchange that kind of thinking to more e.g. lucrative or “fun” ideas. E.g. many people feel they suck at science or “don’t get it”, because they don’t see “how it’s applied” or “how’s it going to lead to anything” or they say that “it’s not fun, because it’s difficult”, but the reason for “not getting the idea” may have been a bad teacher that didn’t go through the kind of thought processes that scientists and people with a passion and an appreciation for science go through. Or that they “waste” their time on other things than what science would require them to do (which is practice and thinking). Scientists are curious people and things that motivate them are words like “truth”, “reason” and “logic”. If you “get” what those words mean and why they aren’t intuitive or trivial and why they therefore have to be defined and RESEARCHED, then you understand what science is about and why scientists are passionate about doing science.

Also, science is not a spectator sport. To effectively learn science, you should think like a scientist, look around you and think why things are like they are and what are the things that you see, is there a reason and causality behind the things and can that be explained and tested? And then go see if someone has already explained it (most things e.g. in physical sciences and mathematics have very solid theories). Or if you’re reading a theory/explanation, then you should think, why is THIS the theory (there’s a reason why it works) and not something else.