• Question: do you like the thought of being proposed with a difficult challenge?

    Asked by laceyann to Adam, Catherine, Karen, Leila, Nazim on 14 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Adam Stevens

      Adam Stevens answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      I will answer with a quote –

      “We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…” – Which was how JFK got the USA to the Moon before 1970.

      I think human beings have an inbuilt desire to be challenged. We need ambitious targets to really fulfil our potential, so yes, I love having a difficult challenge!

    • Photo: Leila Battison

      Leila Battison answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      I love it – thats why we do science. Adam already stole my favourite quote.

      It can be really exciting being posed a question that nobody has tried to answer before, and coming up with a way of answering it, and testing your ideas, and getting an answer. The feeling that you have done that all yourself is something to be really proud of!

    • Photo: Catherine Rix

      Catherine Rix answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      It’s good to be challenged, but sometimes things can seem so difficult that you don’t know where to start. i find the best thing is to break a problem down into small pieces and deal with them one at a time.

    • Photo: Nazim Bharmal

      Nazim Bharmal answered on 14 Mar 2012:

      Being a scientist means you regularly get difficult challenges, so if you don’t like that then it is the wrong job. I think I would get bored if I didn’t get tough problems to solve, so yes, I do like the thought.

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