19/08/2026
If you have ever started research, this graph will feel a little too personal. ๐
You begin all excited. Then it gets hard. Then comes that lovely moment of staring at your screen thinking, why am I even doing this to myself.
You push a bit more and it finally clicks. You feel unstoppable for a few days. Then one rejection email lands and pulls you right back down to maybe research isn't for me.
And then the next morning, you sit down and try again.
That last bit is really the whole thing. What nobody tells you is that every researcher you look up to has sat at the bottom of this same curve.
The toppers, the published ones, all of them.
The only difference is they came back the next day.
So if you are low on this curve right now, you are not failing at research. You are just doing it, same as everyone who made it before you.
Where are you stuck today? ๐
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