By Duanduan Han — 2018
One way to find balance is to separate work from your outside life entirely, and leave science in the lab. But I see it differently: I have found joy and balance by joining my research and hobbies.
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Scott Shute, David Gelles and Parneet Pal speak at Wisdom 2.0, 2017 in San Francisco.
This is a clip from the feature documentary “A Joyful Mind.”
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