26/02/2026
We are all trapped by our educational backgrounds.
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“We’re all trapped by our educational backgrounds. You come out of school knowing a certain field but you don’t know about any other fields of science. That limits what you can do for sure. The way to combat this is to every day learn something new. I tell my grad students that the greatest skill they have is to continue to learn by themselves after they have left graduate school. Most of the things I have used in my life are things that were invented after I left graduate school and I had to keep learning just to keep up with the field.”
Chemistry laureate Louis Brus highlighted the importance of lifelong learning in his Nobel Prize lecture. He also shared his other top tips for success… and they don’t include being a genius!
Watch his Nobel Prize lecture here: https://bit.ly/3tqi79Z
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