SWOT analysis must be the key strategy. Just like other profession, scienific academia always endorse your passion sandwitched with your knowledged on basic sciences and real time scientific progression pattern. Understanding various real time researable issues is as much as important as strengthening the knowledge on various basic scientific principles. Personally I feel like, teaching is a great tool for getting such motivation to upgrade knowledge on per day basis. It is only possible when teaching is not just for completing the syllabus, rather it must focus on sharing knowledge and motivating shelf learning attitute of students.

Thank you Dr. Asish Kumar Panda sir.

This is a major issue among Academics, as one tends to get contended and stagnate over time and also not update professionally and still get away with it.

Thank you sir (@ Emmanuel V Murray)