One of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize is renal physician Professor Ratcliffe, whose renowned journal Nature rejected his research in 1992 and won the Nobel Prize in 2019. Really, Scientific research needs perseverance, determination and patience.
"First it is strange, then it enters", as Fernando Pessoa said.
Resilience as a differentiating factor ...
Good example. In most cases, the state of failure is synonymous with the state of challenge, which comes as an incentive to reach the highest score.
Many times in life when we feel depressed because things have not gone as planned, let's think that:
"Many of life's failures are from people who didn't realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
Thomas A. Edison
Failure can be a catalyst for success, but it needs patience and nothing is impossible as there is strong will
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Thank you for sharing your opinion أ.م.د. نبراس طه خماس . Best Regards
Dear Amal Saadoon Majeed ,
Failure is the piller of successs . Moreover reason for failure is also a reportable
events for analysing the research methology ie negative report and what will be the next corrective action !
Inspiring and heart warming for those of us who are struggling and need encouragement.
If you failed attempt to win then for winning you will be strongly attempt once again and definitely success will be yours.
Yes. It is difficult to continue strongly after a failed attempt.
Reading the 'roadsigns' and 'crossroads' in science and life requires communicative skills, e.g. evaluation of feedbacks and responses.
Sometimes, as your exceptional example documents, it is a matter of merging time and chance; sometimes, the whole research direction needs a 'new compass'.
Ignorance needs to be analyzed carefully:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociology_of_scientific_ignorance
https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/04/02/stuart-firestein-ignorance-science/
https://www.amazon.de/Ignorance-How-Drives-Science-English-ebook/dp/B007M7HXMC
To sum it up, we should follow our bliss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DhmQvLV9JQ
(J.Campbell, 36 seconds, advice).
Any idea worth studying and experimenting, and any experience that has a level of probability between success and failure, believing in our ability to make success motivates to continue
I appreciate your wonderful contribution. Many thanks Stephen I. Ternyik .
Actually, what you said represents the truth. Many thanks Md Rabiul Alam .
Only if you don't realize what went wrong. When you have a target you must wake up after fall down.
You have made important point to this discussion. Many thanks Charalampos Triantis Martinos .
Failure is not easy (although it is not fatal for many) and once we make ourselves free of concepts of failure and success (that can be different for person to person), we work whole heartedly for the betterment of all living beings, then it is true achievement.
Many thanks Nazia Asad for your wonderful contribution to this discussion.
some Ways to Remain Motivated After you Fail
Yes! But, you have to get up after the failure. For a righteous man may fall seven times And rise again, But the wicked shall fall by calamity (Proverbs 24: 16).
You have made very important points to this discussion. Many thanks Dr Kamal M Alsaad
I appreciate your valuable contribution Carine Temegne Nono . Many thanks
I think one should continue. First look closely at the criticisms of the reviewers and then find out how one can provide answers to questions as well as perhaps collecting more data or explaining a concept more clearly. Then resubmit the paper to another journal. Never give up so long as you believe that your work is valuable and worthy of publication.
I agree with you Srini Vasan . Thank you for sharing your opinion.
Life is a continuation of stepping stones - so-called “failures” that lead to success.
Failure is the first step towards success, not the end of the road.
A successful person is one who takes advantage of his past experiences to help him start over.
Fear of failure is the first step to failure.
A failed person is a person who does not learn from his experiences and is considered to have ended in terms of his failure.
Yes, failure in the past is one of the reasons for success in the future as well as sincerity and perseverance and are the keys to success for any successful work
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In the first place is your own assurance in your project-paper-ideas etc. In second place your need to put it in words-actions and learn fron the reacctions of relevant Others.
After a large failure you might want to give up and it will make continuing hard. But, you should take it as a chance to prove that you are, and can become, better than you were before.
History has shown us many success stories built on the accumulation of mistake corrections or lack of understanding or even sad endings, diligence and perseverance overcome in the end and ideas don't die. When you persevere you win at least yourself and when you quit you lose everything
On the contrary, Every failed attempt reinvigorates and energises to fight back with more zeal. But it varies from person to person i.e. whether one is a quitter or a fighter. It is under such circumstances that our faith plays a very very crucial role. Also, history is full of examples where perseverance and determination have ultimately paid dividends. Abraham Lincon, Thomas Alva Edison are examples we can take inspiration from.
It goes with a popular and wise saying "winners never quit; quitters never win". Times without number many study outcomes that are eventually picked for laurel recognition have one time or the other been rejected by another journal. It shows that no one has a monopoly of knowledge. The reviewers are just trying their best. This is a good rethink for our Editors. The Editors themselves sometimes not fair enough but are obsessed with what will increase their impact factors or wider readership, many papers have been knocked out upon these aspects.
I completely agree with you Kamoru A. Adedokun . Thank you for sharing your opinion.
Failure is the first step to success when not giving in to failure. Failure with a JOURNAL does not mean failure with other journals and is a means of defending creative abilities.
Well, in 1992 prof. Ratcliffe was not knighted yet (2014). Neither, had he occupied significant positions, or won significant prizes:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-J-Ratcliffe
Nor is he the only one whose work got rejected:
https://www.sciencealert.com/these-8-papers-were-rejected-before-going-on-to-win-the-nobel-prize
His article rejection seems to be part of a larger controversy:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/09/nobel-winner-boycott-science-journals
Same thing with the Nobel prize winners' selection:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/10/the-absurdity-of-the-nobel-prizes-in-science/541863/
I think that not being recognized as a collaborator/ lead-in scientist, having died prior to the awarding ceremony, being of the wrong country, or due to politics - is much worse:
https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i15/Five-chemists-should-won-Nobel.html
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Dr Amal, my faliar more than my success but I will not lost my hopes.
Failed attempts are needed to improve upon oneself
After ten thousand failed attempts incandescent bulbs was created
After seven years of continuous attempts electricity could be generated from magnet
One latest example is Vikram of chandrayan two of India now Vikram is working
Really, I appreciate your valuable contribution Valeria Tananska .
I believe that if we have confidence in ourselves and our ideas, failure does not stand in the way and this also requires perseverance, determination and patience.
Indeed, self-confidence is very important in such kinds of situations. Many thanks Mehdi mohamed Hage-Hassan .
Dear Dr.Amal Saadoon Majeed ,
Faiure is the piller of Success & Success is whose who climbs till the end .
It might be hard but one should still be determined to do better on the next try.
Failure is the first step on the ladder of success, we can overcome failure by believing in God and trusting Him as well as knowledge of strong will, determination and strong will.
It's happen only due to the research time application ...generally scientist carry out research in relation to present need. A very few researchers focuses on future need.
Thanks
Dear Vivek Khambalkar ,
You highlighted a very important point in scientific research. Many thanks
True failure does not happen until you stop getting back up. Fall 1,000 times and get up 1,001.
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