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If you're not obsessed with the research problem you're working on, for its own sake, you're unlikely to succeed. Intrinsic motivation is fa…
If you're not obsessed with the research problem you're working on, for its own sake, you're unlikely to succeed. Intrinsic motivation is far more powerful than external rewards. An Econ PhD student a
If you're not obsessed with the research problem you're working on, for its own sake, you're unlikely to succeed. Intrinsic motivation is far more powerful than external rewards. An Econ PhD student at the 20th ranked program who is working on stuff they are passionate about will have a better job market than one at MIT who's been doing nothing but phd-app-maxxing since undergrad. People get confused by this because they don't observe how successful peo…
Source: Francois Chollet (X) | 2026-05-16