Academics of Mastodon: is it normal for to go through the cycles of feeling like your research is irrelevant to feeling like yes, everything clicks in one place now, to again feeling like you know nothing at all about anything?
How do you battle that? How do you develop a concrete sense of “knowing”? I’ve seen a lot of output driven performance metrics like number of pages written or number of papers published and stuff, but is there any input driven performance metrics that you keep track of for personal growth?
