Re: [DIYbio] How do you keep motivated?

Cathal Garvey since finding out that openbiotech.com is your website (am I right to make that assumption?), I wanted to know -some human cell lines are Biosafety level 2 whereas others don't have a classification. Does that mean they can be worked on under BSL 1 conditions?

On Friday, June 6, 2014 3:20:50 PM UTC-4, Cathal Garvey wrote:
> There are many tiers and types of "motivation", so it'd be hard for me
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> to give one answer. So, I won't.
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> On the one hand, I'm motivated by a love of making/hacking/doing, and a
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> love of teaching and enabling. And, that's not likely to change. That
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> motivates me to do "stuff" daily, whether it's writing, coding, or (when
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> I was able) biohacking.
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> The other side is motivation to actually stick to a particular mission
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> or task, to see something through to conclusion. Over time, with my bad
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> luck in the lab and events like IndieBB, I found myself enjoying more
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> and more the other end of my hobbies; software and writing. Motivation
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> to actually do things in the lab is hard to maintain without successes
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> or support, unless you have something else to go on. For most people,
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> that's company and camaraderie, but I lacked that in Cork for a long time.
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> Another thing that was keeping me going was a mission to develop "open
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> biotech", but I learned that, as an end in itself, it's sadly not very
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> rewarding. I still develop open, but I realised that few people besides
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> myself care that much: http://www.indiebiotech.com/?p=245
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> Of late, my motivation problem has been turning around. We've received
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> verbal agreement from the Cork City Council that we can use a lovely
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> city centre building for a minimal fee per month, to establish a
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> biomakerspace, and I have found a nice nucleus of DIYbio founders to
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> back it up. We have Synbio Axlr8r in Cork for at least another month,
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> and some teams may choose to remain for a while or indefinitely.
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> So, my mission right now is to somehow raise enough money in the next
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> month to actually fund a biohackerspace, and my own survival, in order
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> to give it all a good shot. Probably corporate sponsorship, if we can
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> find a local company with enough vision. I feel like if I can get the
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> doors open, and invite people into a communal DIYbio lab in my own city,
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> that I'll never want for motivation again. Time will tell!
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> On 06/06/14 17:25, Dakota Hamill wrote:
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> > No science here, but nonetheless important.
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> > It's been interesting reading the posts on this group over the years and
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> > even meeting some people in person. The group is an eclectic bunch that
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> > spans the gamut from academic professionals to people who've never picked
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> > up a pipette in their life, and all are part of the family! It's great
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> > when that many people come together because they want to learn something.
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> > Curiosity is no doubt an important human trait, as is the desire to teach
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> > others.
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> > I know many people each have their own little projects they are working on,
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> > with some people intent on changing the world and others just happy to see
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> > that a transformation worked. Nevertheless I'd venture to say that many of
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> > us all share something in common, and that's that we all are a little
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> > "different" from the normal crowd.
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> > I never liked jumping through hoops and life has an odd way of punishing
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> > you for that. Many of us are or were students, undergraduate or graduate,
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> > and I feel like academia can sometimes be the worst perpetrator of elitism.
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> > I'll be completely honest here and say part of me really desires to be part
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> > of "the club" of elite institutions because it is a form of validation, of
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> > saying, you made it, you're good enough. And then the other half of me,
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> > which brings me to this place filled with all you fine people, says #$%&
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> > the club. It says to me, you don't need external validation to be great.
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> > You create greatness through your actions, you inspire greatness with your
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> > ideas, and you nurture greatness by helping others.
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> >
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> > Maybe I'm going through a quarter life crisis because I fear committing to
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> > graduate school prior to taking a chance in life, but it seems like you're
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> > up against the world when you're outside the bubble of rich schools and
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> > rich companies. I guess that never stopped many great people in the past
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> > though, so why should it stop any of us?
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> > I suppose part of it is feeling guilty for asking for help without a
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> > perfect product, or a flawless plan of execution, or an already finished
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> > proof of concept. But...often times you need help in order to make a
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> > better product, or to build a better plan of execution, or to achieve a
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> > proof of concept.
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> > Before I write a book that no one wants to read I think I'll stop there and
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> > just ask, what inspires you? What motivates you? What are your successes
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> > and failures? Do you fear living your entire life without being validated
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> > for something you've worked very hard for? How do you overcome caring
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> > about what other people think to just get shit done?
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> > -Dakota
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> --
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> T: @onetruecathal, @IndieBBDNA
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> P: +353876363185
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> W: http://indiebiotech.com

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