I feel it is very difficult to manage time in research as it is non-ending job. As a researcher, one has number of responsibilities including time for self and family. It is not necessary that research output is proportional to the time you spend in research. I have seen numbers of researchers who work very hard, but their research output is not visible. Sometimes, we are so much involved in science that we forgot about our health. Health is another important issue, if you are tired you can not think much. I am asking this question to find out from other colleagues how they are managing their time. According to you, what is best way to manage time, in order to keep the balance of most of things in life? At end of day we have to live a happy life.
Time management is one of the most difficult tasks in research. However it is always good to set goals in the project or PhD work. As a bioinformatics student I believe one review paper and an article per year is a good target to work for. Health as well as a good surrounding with friends and family who point out the flaws and appreciate our good work is a major factor in a researcher's well being. Being too much stressed or frustrated can surely lead to poor outcomes in research. At the end of the day, no matter what all work we do, it will not be recognized unless it gets published.
Man is unitasking.......... they want to do everything is best possible way and seek excellence.
So they often concentrate more towards one area only.
Managing time is not a problem only for researcher but even Industrialist and businessman have same issue.
We rarely got a news that a women sucide under work pressure but common among man and especially Top ranker who dream always high.
We must give equal priority to each of them work, health, family, friend and child.
No one can understand how but we should learn it.
Ofcourse for it we have to learn use of satisfaction and patience much. And dont ignore others too. We have to dream but we should be ready always if it is not fulfil we shouldnt have any feeling low or bad too.
Wr should dream so that we should move forward not to achieve it at any cost.
Finally we have to sacrify one thing a high dream or family life.
Indian tradition preaches to be patience and satisfied so I recommended same to you .. if you dont get all seven star at the end then you must be happy if got even five star .
You must proud of you and your commitment too because you got it even without depriving your family from their right.
At last
All is well sir G
Everyone in the research business should look to a classic essay by Richard Hamming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Hamming) called "YOU AND YOUR RESEARCH". It was actually a lecture given at a Bell colloquium, but is available widely (see for example: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html). In it, Hamming gives lots of very good advice, including on time management, choice of problems to work on, handling bureaucracy, etc. Another worthwhile essay is FOUR GOLDEN LESSONS by S Weinberg, Nature 426(6965), 426, in which the author has some advice on time management.
@Vahid, most of time you have to perform in order to survive. If one is not able to produce good number of papers then it is difficult to get job, grant etc. In that case you have no choice except to perform. I am not sure how many of us are doing research only for fun (hobby). In case you are doing research for fun than you may balance between research and health, family etc. If you are unable to secure job then life is more difficult for self and for family. Day-by-day science is becoming more demanding, every day standard of science is increasing, so publishing paper in a good journal is a big challenge.
Do one job at a time and never thnk of other one while doing one.concentrate in it itself soleley... Yet more difficult but if we practise we can do this..
Dear friend,
There are so many things you need to look at.
I shall give some brief pointers to help you my dear friend.
1. you need to be smart enough to utilize the resources around you.
2. you do specific work at specific time. [ puntual]
3. You need to gauge the work before you start-
4. Eat good quality food for good health.- your wife will do that. sos dont worry. read some good food articles on net- get some idea.
5. dO REGULAR exercise.- be healthy
6. Read that article ''http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html)'' but its sure its not going to help you. Nice to read but wont be enough to manage research for a newbie. [well that talk was for big brain [genius] people at BELL LABS -] IF you are a genius, then its fine.
7. Be consistent and continuous in research work. - be regular- don't leave the touch.
8. You need to love research just like you love your wife- [each having importance at its own place-so have disjoint time sets;........ wife for happiness and research for career growth......]
9. Keep yourself updated about latest papers published .....
10. when you get bored or frustrated , then close ur research for some time and go for two day holiday trip [ say any hill station with ur family]. Refresh your mind , thats really needed.
THere are other things too.. BUT for the time being its enough.
Hope this will help you.
Take care friend.
Best regards,
INDRAJIT MANDAL
Time management is one of the most difficult tasks in research. However it is always good to set goals in the project or PhD work. As a bioinformatics student I believe one review paper and an article per year is a good target to work for. Health as well as a good surrounding with friends and family who point out the flaws and appreciate our good work is a major factor in a researcher's well being. Being too much stressed or frustrated can surely lead to poor outcomes in research. At the end of the day, no matter what all work we do, it will not be recognized unless it gets published.
While undertaking any research program , we certainly keep the result of our mind towards our research & also for the likely undertaking of our time period so as to perform our work in more methodical manner .
Very often in my working all in my program certain circumstances unexpectedly come to me with the result we can not afford to manage with the time.
In this line i have also which me my publication which i take liberty to submit under the captioned'' The Need of Time '' for your perusal & for our readers .
I feel this because certain action of our life we may be required to pass the phase of unexpected events .This be applied for medical profession ,Publishers,Business & Management personnel so to say for every individuals who have with them their own working environment .
This is of course my personal opinion
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