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To: GVTucker who wrote (182843)	12/5/2005 2:16:45 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 186894

OT "Just because you happen to know somebody that doesn't have any perspective or balance in life doesn't mean that everyone is that way." I didn't mean everyone. First, "true" researcher's perspective and concept of life balance is slightly different. Researchers find greatest satisfaction when finding a solution to a problem which was not solved ever before, or even never formulated. To accomplish this, new previously non-existing neural network structures has to be formed in their brains and self-organized, which takes an extraordinary internal work. My observation is that if you have a "balanced" life, your results in research will likely to be also "balanced" and short of extraordinary or innovative. However, things vary. "Though I think that you underestimate the natural ability that is necessary to be a good engineer" Not really an underestimate. As we see, some researchers can be "more balanced" than others, so it is not like black and white boundary. Same goes for engineers, there is always a spectrum of natural and acquired abilities, and the two spectra certainly overlap. Having been formally in both occupations through my 35-year-long career, I hope I know the subject first-hand. Cheers, - Ali