Molecular Disobedience
My lack of blogging has not been from a lack of interesting things going on, however, it may have something to do with the noncompliance of the laws of nature to my independent will.
So much of what I do relies on the timeline of "science" which is completely not up to me. Molecules, for the most part, behave how they will regardless of your sweet-talking, threatenings, or silent indignation. An invited lecturer recently stated something to the effect of "When everything you are trying is not working, it is sometimes best to just stop, and go read the literature, or give it enought time to be able to look at the problem with a fresh perspective." I take this is be similar to the sentiments of, "Just give in to the molecules. Figure out what they want. The molecule is always right." It seems that in general, projects move faster, motivation stays intact longer, faces are happier, when you just give in to the will of "science".
That's been my recent approach, and finger crossed, it seems to be working a little better. As a result, the non-orthodoxy of my current work lends to teach me news ways to think about traditional methods which is never a bad practice. I guess it's a good way to see that the disobedience is not necessarily a bad thing if it's taught me good lessons.
Now if only I could get the molecules to tell me what they want, instead of trying to just figure it out by process of elimination.
So much of what I do relies on the timeline of "science" which is completely not up to me. Molecules, for the most part, behave how they will regardless of your sweet-talking, threatenings, or silent indignation. An invited lecturer recently stated something to the effect of "When everything you are trying is not working, it is sometimes best to just stop, and go read the literature, or give it enought time to be able to look at the problem with a fresh perspective." I take this is be similar to the sentiments of, "Just give in to the molecules. Figure out what they want. The molecule is always right." It seems that in general, projects move faster, motivation stays intact longer, faces are happier, when you just give in to the will of "science".
That's been my recent approach, and finger crossed, it seems to be working a little better. As a result, the non-orthodoxy of my current work lends to teach me news ways to think about traditional methods which is never a bad practice. I guess it's a good way to see that the disobedience is not necessarily a bad thing if it's taught me good lessons.
Now if only I could get the molecules to tell me what they want, instead of trying to just figure it out by process of elimination.
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