Neuropeople: advice if you're interested in neuroscience

[Music] if you have an interest in science then definitely I think there's nothing worse than getting to the interview education and thinking I should have done I actually enjoy be okay with being really excited about something and pursue it and that will drive you in your life other people will say trying to stop you from doing that potentially because it's not seen as cool but if you have the strength to say actually you know this anyway the most important thing you should do is ask questions so it's something that we all do in our day to day lives it's just a skill that we have to develop and sometimes it feels a bit weird or a bit wrong or like everybody else knows the answer but I think one of the biggest things that I've learned in life as well as in science is that most people don't know the answer or some people are very good at pretending they do know the answer so never think that you are the least intelligent person in the room because everybody's intelligent about different topics and your perspective is the most important thing that you can bring precise I don't think there's really anything else you can do you can get that amazing feeling of doing something for the first time in the world so it doesn't maybe come often in a career and the moments are few and far between but his or is the opportunity to do something absolutely unique the great thing about research is that you you can just explore you know anything you want so so then but the most important thing is that you do something that you really like and that actually don't worry so much about what other people think about it whether other people think it's you should do something that or other people think that way but you like it's pointless or trivial because actually in sometimes the most interesting and important discoveries can come out of the most trivial you know beginning work in science mostly I think it's really funny and that's one of the thing I had not true about when I was you know a student nice for undergrad whatever and before you actually worked in a lab and sometimes in like a lot of different lab and try it a different sort of things like you don't realize you can actually like you can do something you find fun on a daily basis I've heard a lot of people say you get some say oh I really wish I it's not uncommon on the other hand if it's this is if you want to be their addition if you want to go into neuroscience and be experimentalist and where Excel and learn as much math as possible because the direction really embrace all aspects of science even if you think one is more interesting the others because probably five ten years down the line you'll be using all of them do it if you're interested in why the brain works as it does and not for any other wasn't feel cute in it and about it and you find it fascinating just Pacific there are many ways to come again both I know that if some excited student wanted to come and visit one of my labs or if they wanted to come and spend a few weeks here and get involved in research we'd be totally happy to have them and say there are ways and means are just if you're excited just reach out to people and then we'll be will be excited to have you around and show you in Sciences there are definitely ways of me into getting involved so they either you need to have certain grades or ever just just reach out in case get started if you're interested at all in understanding how you learn develop grow how you get excited about things how you get inspired by things then I would love to have you join the neuroscience you know research community because I think there should be more of that [Music]

Channel: Sainsbury Wellcome Centre

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Length: 4min 10sec (250 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 16 2018