Carolyn Bertozzi: Nobel Prize Conversations
Nobel Prize Conversations
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The Importance of Self-Confidence
I think if I had been in a large lab with a kind of an infrastructure in which everyone was sort of standing in line and following the same path, then I probably would have done something different. But because I was on my own, left to my own devices, it gave me the latitude to figure out what do I really want to do next. That's when I decided to leave chemistry and do this postdoctoral fellowship in an immunology lab. And some other senior professors who were my kind of backup advisors at the time, they counseled me against this. They told me it was not a good idea. It was too far a stray from the path that was familiar to them.
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