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- Ask colleagues for opinion of your work; write papers, communicate with your community.
- Switch amongst parallel tasks.
- Find an "informal network" and use it.
- Don't sit with a small specific problem - reach out.
- Ask your group what they've already done - don't reinvent the wheel.
- Force yourself to write something.
- Try to vary your point of view.
- Work hard.
- Go to gatherings like this - network!
- Take every opportunity for feedback - then use it.
- Ideas can come from unexpected places.
- Build collaborations early - including unconventional ones.
- Read each paper 3 times (5 if important) and make notes.
- Find a topic that really, really interests you.
- Make contact with gurus and find ways to cooperate.
- Be open minded.
- Participate in real projects.
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