As an undergraduate assistant Marek has performed lab experiments in a research institute with test persons. This work was great fun for him, but he does not want to work in science after he has finished his master thesis.
"If you work in a lab or perform experiments many things can go wrong. Many things will go wrong. Once, I worked together with a fellow student and a few times in a row some electrodes dropped and we noticed that only after the test persons had already left long ago. And it had really been difficult to find some who met the specific requirements that we needed. It is not necessarily always your own fault. Sometimes you make a mistake yourself. However, sometimes you really do not know what exactly what you did wrong. Maybe the organization was at fault or there have been technical problems."
Marek's strategy:
"Failures happen, but you have to continue. As a scientist you have to be prepared to make many mistakes and to try something new time and again. That is why it is called "experimenting". Scientists are celebrated if everything works out and they have found out something remarkable, because it is not commonplace that everything works out. If you have understood that, that is the first step towards more serenity if you want to do something in science in my opinion."
This strategy works out well for me: get rid of your anger, analyze immediately what went wrong and how you can try it differently again.
Strategy keywords:
Deal openly with challenges
Normalize challenges
Learn from your mistakes and modify your strategy