just a wonder - (Dec/18/2006 )

hello all
i want to ask a question , seems stupied one but cant get it out of my head...
how long does it take u to be good in ur work?
i mean usually when i am at the beginning of a new exp. sometimes i do it good and sometimes no but at the second time NO way something must of go wrong, i wonder how long it will take me to be expert in some field?
is it realed to previous expiernce? personality, cleverness.....?
i am actually a medical doctor doing my phd, my professor said its 6 months now from my start so i have to be expert in my work but my supervisor said that i need more time to get acquinted......

share with me ur opinion.

by the way i amnot an optimistic person , i am a fighter but these days i have this feeling .....concentrate!

i think previous experience has a big merit, however personality plays a bigger role.

I mean its how you think, how you straight things up when you commit mistakes and how you decide for yourself when things/experiments go wrong

I think thats the reason, why some people excel over others and why some people learn faster than the others (or become expert)

as soon as you understand that there is no failure! you stop being so preoccupied with the thought that you have "failed" again and start for looking for the mistakes. Everyone around is is just the same as you are. They all do mistakes, their experiments fail too. It is not a matter of time, it is a matter of when you learn to look at it from different perspective.

thankx
i amnot actually asking because i feel down or failed in particular exp. i wrote this because i noticed what i had just said *no way to be good in my exp at the second time*
at this point i stop to think about it and post it here may be and then decide to focus more next time but still got this inside feeling in third time *i dont know if its gonna work this time or not* and wonder how many times do i have to repeat it to be expert in it
hope u can understand me

spanish flower i am in the same situation like u.
i think the key is concentration and more thinking
gambatte ne

i think it depends on the exp also, simple experiments need shorter time through which one can learn few things and at this time he/she became a step-more better than before (get more experiences), however, projects/research experiments require longer time so you can discover more keys and overcome your past mistakes..in other words, getting experience is an accumulated process..

by the way i too am starting my research
me a masters student and am not facing that big problem in my work, it almost is working fine till now,
but i do not mind facing faliures as this is what is science,
you fail, you learn.........

thankx everyone for sharing.

and don't forget the supervisor 'motivation' and lab communial knowledgebase. Both can speed things along.