In the short term, you are constantly reinforced by the positive feedback you get from your experiments. Anytime you can contribute a new piece of scientific literature, it is rewarding. If over the course of a decade, you could have three or four major contributions, you have really done something.
眼前實驗不順，沒關係，想想長期以來，自己在這個領域累積了什麼貢獻，得到過多少正面的回饋，想到這些就能再積極向前」，他指出。