One problem at a time

In recent two weeks, I have been enjoying everyday moments of doing “usual research works;

• Discuss with colleagues, read papers, etc. Get inspired in all possible ways.
• Think hard and formulate a scientific question to answer.
• Refine the question into a theoretical physics problem.
• Derive equations and write codes.
• Get frustrated and overcome technical challenges (repeat N times…)
• Solve it.
• See the results.
• Be surprised.
• Think again, hard.
• See the results again.
• Realize that I was wrong.
• Explain the results.
• Talk to colleagues that everything finally make sense and try to convince them.
• …
• Leave the office with satisfaction.
• Spend afternoon in the city or park and open a bottle of wine.

Although it wasn’t my plan to work on the current problem because I already have several papers to write and I didn’t want to pile up more results. But over several months, I got pretty excited with ideas from various places and started to engage myself more seriously. It was entirely a spontaneous thing; I sometimes postpone the duties which are in fact more urgent. But I am very happy spending time doing usual scientific research and appreciate every moment (of series of frustration everyday).