You’re not ready. Do it anyway

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In Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman talks about spending a summer at Caltech to “Just try out biology”, a field he was completely untrained in and unfamiliar with:

…I went over to the biology lab to tell them my desire, and Bob Edgar, a young post­doc who was sort of in charge there, said … “You’ll have to really do some research, just like a graduate student, and we’ll give you a problem to…