It has made me grow to not be afraid to fail, if this would’ve been me a year ago I would’ve been devastated for a whole day, but today I was just like meh 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’ll just try again w/ this info I remembered picked my stuff up and left for the day

Another example I recently started working w/ bacterial cultures to express membrane scaffold proteins for nano discs and it’s been a while I did this since my masters so I forgot that e.coli doubles in 20mins until after I induced too late and after a convo w/ my PI… bummed out for a min but

This past month I’ve messed up small trivial things but I’ve ended up learning good tricks that have given me solid results in the end… like a plasmid mini prep which I ended up having great yields for after

IMO I’ve slowly learned that there are no “failures” in research, only information you gather. Negative data isn’t failure — it just tells you this path isn’t it, and reroutes you to a different story, perspective, or line of thought. What is failure, anyway? Just a new direction