• Question: what motivates you to do your job and work hard

    Asked by anon-188676 to Warren, Shanti, Pizza Ka Yee, Paul, Nadine, Alex on 6 Nov 2018.
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      Alex Reid answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      I really enjoy problem solving and thinking of new ways to test things, that is a huge motivator, especially when you are rewarded with some nice results! More broadly science is generally a team effort both when you are working with people from your own lab, and when you rely on the work of other labs to build your own experiments and hypotheses (research questions). I find being part of a collective effort like this is a great motivator, especially when other people are relying on you to do your job well!

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      Nadine Mirza answered on 7 Nov 2018:

      The people I’m working for: people with dementia. When I hear how they feel about my work and research- how it gets them excited, gives them hope, how great they think it is or when they till me it’s needed, and important and necessary, when they describe wishing it had come around sooner or how eager they are to participate- hearing all that from these amazing people living with this terrible disease and still being positive and enthusiastic and living full lives, that motivates me big time.

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      Paul Matusz answered on 11 Nov 2018:

      Hi, to me is the ability of equalising learning opportunities to mostly healthy but disadvantaged children in normal schooling, as well as bringing back fundamental skills to those without them. I started studying psychology so I can understand what controls us as people. Since then, I was always interested in how we process information in the busy, complex, multisensory environments. Filling out these lacks in knowledge is probably the most important for supporting how children learn every day as well as in rehabilitation of different disorders – from kids not seeing very well (like when they have a “lazy eye” to kids having problem with learning or older adults who have problems with their memory. So the possibility that some of the things that I discover might be helping others is what keeps me working hard.

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