The Nature of Ambition
To postdoctoral researchers, PhD turned entrepreneurs and PhD students, I recommend the words of Grant Snider:
If you are lucky, you will find something you love doing.
Others will take notice.
You’ll strive to improve your skills.
Your work will grow to define you.
Eventually, you will gain recognition for it.
But you may encounter backlash.
Inner turmoil.
Fierce competition.
And self-doubt.
In the struggle for greatness, your work will become bigger! Faster! More Exotic!
Until you finally lose control.
And you’re left with nothing.
Except the thing you loved in the first place.
– by Grant Snider.
Mr Grant Snider is an orthodontist by day and an artist by night. His comics have been featured in the Kansas City Star, the New York Times, and the New York Times Book Review, as well as The Best American Comics in 2013. He lives in Wichita, Kansas, with his wife and three children. You can visit him at his twitter here and his website here.
