How to train early-career scientists to weather failure

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Workshops and training programmes tackle failure and how to recover from it.

. In it, the author repeatedly walks down a street, falls into a deep hole, feels helplessness and laments how long it takes to find a way out. The poem traces the author’s incremental acceptance of her role in falling into the hole and how falling in becomes a habit, which eventually leads her to emerge from the hole more quickly and find another street that’s hole free.

“If you know that curve is coming,” he continues, “then it’s so much less stressful. Because you realize, oh, this is supposed to suck. And when you’re in the middle of that curve, it’s not that you’re failing so much as you’re looking for insight.”Not all of Ryan’s lab staff were immediate converts to the U-curve after his spiel. “I remember thinking, I’m not going to go down in this valley of failure.

But, he says, the camaraderie of commiserating together over frustrations and unsuccessful experiments helped all the lab members tremendously. “If one of us was really struggling with a certain experimental technique, it would often turn out that it was actually a strength of someone else’s in the lab,” he says. Lab members helping each other out led to successful experiments — and publishing papers together — more quickly, he says.

One of the modules highlights a strategy of separating what’s inside and outside a person’s control. Having a paper rejected, for example, is outside a postdoc’s control, she explains. “At the same time, they are in control of their response to that feedback, and how they can take that and work forward in new directions.”

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