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Originally Posted by YoungEconomist
I also do find it somewhat disheartening that you could work very hard on a paper and have only a few people actually read it, and even most of them will forget about it within a couple months.
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I would suggest not having rational expectations, i.e. don't act like the people in your models (unless you're a behavioral economist
) Ex-ante, the next paper I write is always going to be awesome, gain a ton of respect, and be the first step towards my research agenda that might change the world.
Ex-post, when it doesn't work out
, well, that paper was still a good learning experience, one I can build on so that my next paper is going to be amazing!!
I find it's hard to be productive when I allow myself to be conscious of any possibility of failure -- if I do, then failure becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.