31 Hamming, Learning to Learn: You and Your Research, 6 June 1995
Channel: Hamming on Hamming: Learning to Learn
Date: 04/03/2018

I have given a talk with this title many times, and it turns out from discussions after the talk I could have just as well have called it "You and Your Engineering Career," or even "You and Your Career." But I left the word "Research" in the title because that is what I have most studied. From the previous chapters you have an adequate background for how I made the study, and I need not mention again the names of the famous people I have studied closely. The earlier chapters are, in sense, just a great expansion, with much more detail, of the original talk. This chapter is, in a sense, a summary of the previous chapters.

00:00 Introduction
03:15 Hamming’s experience
06:05 Newton observed...if other people fought as had as he did they would get the same results
10:30 Great people believe they can do great work
15:53 You have to work on problems which can become important 
18:30 Working with your door closed or open
24:56 You have to make success either by inverting the problem or changing the problem
28:07 The race is not to the swiftest
30:25 Fundamentals
35:30 What aspects of the speaker can you adapt?
39:46 Earning the freedom to work
41:10 Is the effort to be a great person worth it?
44:23 End

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