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Junior researchers start with a question.

Start with a grant proposal for a special interest call instead.

Other senior/smart people have summarized important questions in those calls.

After a few years, you will have enough to form/answer your own questions. (View Tweet)

I observed the same issue with students.

Some want to find their own problems and solutions.

In reality, most good graduate students finish something that is half-solved by their advisor.

Yeah, the top 1% may solve a second (follow-up) problem by themselves. (View Tweet) how to be a qualified doctor My Ph.D. Grind