I was reading "Mindset" by Carol Dweck when I found I don't have any role model for my career. The book is about the importance of having a growth mindset rather than fixed mindset in order to achieve something. Although the writing is not so interesting compared to what I have read before of books by other psychologists and it is heavy with commercial tone, the book does have some bones inside.
I had a pretentious role model Siguan Li when I wanted to become a geologist before the college exam, but I knew little about him. What I imagined was romantic scenes to live a hard life in mountains, like a sacrificed martyr. When I finished medical school, I found no interest to be a real doctor, and neither when I finished the USMLE in US 17 years later. Still I had no role model of physician even I thought I might be a good doctor. As a neurobiologist for 20 years, I have been very dedicated to this career and were quite productive by publication, yet I don't have a strong role model in my mind. Santiago Cajal may counts for one, but I learned little about this neuroanatomist who got the first Nobel prize on medicine, except that he started his career quite late in his 40s.
If you have no role model, it's very unlikely to have clear career goals. That might be my problem for my career development. So I need to find a role model now and set up my career goals. I need to read more biographies first. Fetching from my memory, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Gould could be the role model for science writing; Erich Kendal could be the role model for neurobiologist; Seymour Benzer could be the role model for geneticist; and Thomas Edison could be the role model for inventor...
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