| description | 8,113 likes, 195 comments - dr.starkid on April 20, 2026: "Nobody tells you exactly how much work it takes to win.How many reps.How many sprints. How many hours. That number doesn’t exist. So the only move is to overpay.Do so much work that it would be unreasonable for you to fail.Before my oral comprehensive exam at UCLA I practiced 2 to 3 hours every night for 2 to 3 months. I didn’t know exactly what the professors were going to ask me. But I knew how to reason toward any answer from first principles. Because I had overpaid.Football taught me that. Astrophysics proved it.This is Lesson 2 of what I carried from the football field to a PhD in astrophysics.#scientist #phd #motivation". |
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