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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awareness of your own weaknesses is the first step to make them your strengths.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, this is funny, but anyone worth knowing in a PhD program will quote Hawkings at you if you take the green part too seriously.

"Only losers brag about their IQ."

Or Thomas Edison (and yes, he was actually a decent engineer before he realized how much easier it is to just own a company)

"Great accomplishments depend not so much on ingenuity as on hard work."