When engaging in career planning, many of us end up unintentionally focusing exclusively on optimistic scenarios: “I want to do X, so I’ll do A, B, and C to make it happen.” Of course, there’s nothing wrong with a bit of healthy optimism. But to ensure your plans are robust, you also need to identify and mitigate the potential risks that could threaten your vision for the future — and nothing has shown the importance of planning for risk more clearly than the current pandemic.
A breakthrough stunned world-leading scientists at the close of 2020.
“This will change medicine. It will change research. It will change bioengineering. It will change everything.”
“But when I first saw these results, I nearly fell off my chair.”
“…a once in a generation advance.”
“I was beginning to think it would not get solved in my lifetime.”
“It has occurred decades before many people in the field would have predicted.”
