Sell Yourself, Sell Your Work
> ... it is not sufficient to do a job, you have to sell it. "Selling" to a scientist is an awkward thing to do. It's very ugly; you shouldn't have to do it. The world is supposed to be waiting, and when you do something great, they should rush out and welcome it.<p>Took me very long to get this, and, if I'm being completely honest, I still struggle with it.<p>Being smart and humble is a pretty terrible combination. I met <i>so many</i> brilliant people at UCLA and in my professional career that had this twinge of impostor syndrome. What ended up happening is their less-brilliant but much-louder colleagues always got the promotions and always got the funding.