Choosing your preferred rejection mode

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In academic and research careers, so much can feel so far out of your control. • But there's one way I've found very useful, both for myself and those I mentor, to pull back a little bit more control of your fate, and that is the concept of: • 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞 • And that's the topic of today's Hacking Academia video and podcast - the 40th in the series!!! 🎉🎉🎉 • When you apply for a grant, fellowship, project, award, job or promotion, you face a number of choices that are mostly within your control: • ❓ how closely should I pitch this project to the work I'm already doing? • ❓ how grand or narrow in scope a project should I propose? • ❓ how incremental or impossibly blue sky should the proposed research be? • ❓ how strongly should I make the claims about contributions relating to a prize or promotion application? • ❓ where on the underselling to overselling spectrum do I want to pitch this research? • Your answers to these questions are shaped of course by the guidelines of the scheme you're engaged in - for example some grant schemes being risk averse, whilst others are deliberately blue sky (risky fundamental basic research). • But they're also shaped by something within your control - your ability to significant bias how your application would be rejected - if it is at all. • So why would you do this? • Because it has the beneficial effect of 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘥. • It also has the beneficial effect of making you deliberately think about how you want to pitch whatever it is you're submitting - which can also improve the overall clarity and quality of the submission. • Extra points for the golfing analogy (at 1:36 in the video) for my golfing colleagues 🏌‍♂️ ⛳ • Video is in this post, but you can also check out the: • 🎙️ Podcast link: https://lnkd.in/dpFDhmXu

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