What makes you get out of bed every morning to do research? Is it to fundamentally change the world as we know it, see your work appear in high-impact journals or even in the mainstream media? Perhaps. And will this make you famous or happy? Not necessarily, according to Mole. He suggests that if this is your only motivation the example of Philo Farnsworth should make you think again (see p. 1859).

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