How to Be a Successful Postdoc

I want to keep remembering how stressful it is to apply for an academic position and how low your odds are. There's definitely an element of luck in this. So many talented, amazing, brilliant friends of mine might not have had that chance or like I was lucky that I was privileged enough to stay in academia during the pandemic. And there's nothing wrong with not choosing academia. It's a training stage, right? You're getting trained to decide what to do next,. That next thing should not necessarily work on paper numbers."