I must be honest and admit that I was not in a good condition on the past days. I planned to write a proposal on particle-movement near the wall but failed. There is no excuse. 寒假提前一天回去了，因为在学校的时候效率也比较低。

   During the winter and the spring festival, I did not do anything important--except keeping my familied company. Clean the house and the windows，prepare for the spring festival and then meet relatives and friends and eat and eat, just as an ordinary people. Sometimes enjoyed myself by watching TV.Maybe，that is life。过了一个和常人一样假期，打扫卫生，走亲访友,吃吃喝喝，看电视剧，也许，生活就是这样。

   But I know, for me or for a phD, life should be different．Here I just cite a email form a scientist（蒲慕明）. When I was an undergradute in XJTU, Pro Tao showed us some emails from his teacher, a scientist more than 80. To be brief: just work hard. And they are good examples.

   事实上，对于科研人员来说，生活并不是那样的——郭老师当年说要学生每周7天工作，而陶老师也给我们展示过他的导师在八十多岁的时候回复他的邮件，概括来说就是：我还是那么努力。 我辈必当如此。

   和师兄聊天之后，状态好多了。看来，也许自己乐观了，状态就会好很多。也许状态好了，学习工作就更顺利了。

   生活从来都是由俭入奢易，由奢入俭难的，就像变懒惰很容易，变勤奋却很难。而我们总是会给自己找很多借口去偷懒，尤其是物质生活丰富之后。我觉得出来发自内心的勤奋之外，还要有监督体制。

   是的，公开有利于监管，有利于进步。对我而言，公开的保证确实是一个促进自己的好手段。

   我想说的，在施一公先生的《优秀的博士如何养成》已经很清楚了，我只是要学习，批判吸收。

   但终究还是知易行难，而我们必须迎难而上，日后想必就会水到渠成。

   小计划

   get  up 7:00  no  exception.   by Mi band.

   start morning work in the lab or in the classroom no more than 7:50. and afternoon wark before 1pm.  By manictime. for break on the noon, keep it in 15min.

   end at 10 pm  and sleep before 12:00 pm.  by manictime.

   never surf the internet and do anything not related to science more than harf an hour one day.  That means no chat via QQ, BBS. By manictime.

    我看看施一公先生的演讲和蒲先生的邮件——我还是很适应这样的实验室生活的。小米手环和manictime这个软件可以记录，我想建立一个相册，放每天的行动。

   周五和周日的散打，周三晚上游泳（暂定），体育锻炼也要坚持。

   有志者事竟成 破釜沉舟 百二秦关终属楚

   苦心人天不负 卧薪尝胆 三千越甲可吞吴

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附 节选

   所有成功的科学家一定具有的共同点，就是他们必须付出大量的时间和心血。这是一条真理。实际上，无论社会上哪一种职业，要想成为本行业中的佼佼者，都必须付出比常人多的时间。

 要想在科学研究上取得突破和成功，仅仅刻苦地付出时间是不够的，批判性分析（criticalanalysis）是必须具备的一种素质。不要害怕负面结果，关键是如何从分析负面结果的过程中获取正确的信息。

   “一个人必须对他要做的事情作出取舍，不可能面面俱到。无论阅读科研文献还是聆听学术讲座，目的都是为了借鉴相关经验，更好地服务于自己的科研课题。”

“我认为最重要的事情就是在实验室里的工作时间，当今一个成功的年轻科学家平均每周要有60小时左右的时间投入到实验室的研究工作中……我建议每个人每天至少有6小时投入紧张的实验操作，并且用两小时以上的时间从事与科研直接相关的阅读等工作。文献和书籍的阅读则应主要在这些工作时间之外进行。”

Lab members:

Over the past several months, it has become clear to me that if there is no drastic change in the lab, Poo lab will soon cease to be a productive, firstrate lab that you chose to join in the first place. Lab progress reports over the past six months have clearly shown the lack of progress in most projects.

One year ago, when we first moved to Berkeley, I expressed clearly to everyone my expectation from each one in the lab. The most important thing is what I consider to be sufficient amount of time and effort in the lab work. I mentioned that about 60 hr working time per week is what I consider the minimal time an average successful young scientist in these days has to put into the lab work.

There may be a few rare lucky fellows like Florian, who had two Nature papers in his sleeve already, can enjoy life for a while and still get a job offer from Harvard. Nobody else in the lab has Florian's luxury to play around. Thus I am imposing strict rules in the lab from now on:

1. Everyone works at least 50 hr a week in the lab（e.g.8+ hr a day, six days a week）. This is by far lower than what I am doing every day and throughout most of my career. You may be smarter or do not want to be successful, but I am not asking you to match my time in the lab.

2. By working, I mean real bench work. This does not include surfing on the computer and sending and receiving e-mails for non-scientific matters unrelated to your work（you can do this after work in the lab or at home, and excessive chatting on nonscientific matters. No long lunch break except special occasions. I suggest that everyone puts in at least 6 hr concentrated bench work and 2+ hr reading and other research-related activity each day. Reading papers and books should be done mostly after work. More time can be spent on reading, literature search and writing during working hours when you are ready for writing a paper.

3. I must be informeded in person by e-mail（even in my absence from the lab）when you are absent from the lab for a whole day or more. Inform me early your vacation plan. Taking more than 20 working days out of one year is the maximum to me. In fact, none of you are reporting any vacation and sick leave on your time sheet（against the university rule, although I have been signing the sheets）, but you know roughly how many days you were not here. On the whole, I understand and accept the fact that you may not fulfill the above requirements all the time, due to health reasons, occasional personal business. But if you do not like to follow the rules because it is simply a matter of choice of life style, I respect your choice but suggest you start making plans immediately and leave the lab by the end of January 31. I will do my best to help you to locate a lab to transfer or to find a job. If you do accept the conditions I describe above, I am happy to continue to provide my best support to your work, hopefully more than I have done in the past. I will review the progress of everyone in the lab by the end of June of 2002. I expect everyone to have made sufficient progress in the research so that a good paper is in sight（at least to the level of J.Neuroscience. If you cannot meet this goal at that time, I will have to ask you to prepare to leave my lab by the end of August.

As a scientist, you must dedicate everything to this business 8-hour is unpractical. There is NO way for a scientist or a Ph.D student to work only 8 hours a day!

Go to your mother’s house for afternoon naps and never come back!

5 weeks per year (Chinese New Year, the May Day and the National Day breaks are included)

Start your morning work not later than 8:30 am and afternoon work no later than 1 pm

Surf over the Internet for non-scientific purposes should be less than 30 min a day

Reading newspapers should be limited less than 30 min a day

Novels or other non-scientific journals/magazines are not permitted in the lab and office

If you are absent from the lab more than one hour, get permission first.

Everyone has personal business, but the lab business always has priority unless in emergency

In this business, an“average”student who works seven days a week is definitely more productive than a“genius”who works five days a week

If you are able to make any major progresses by working 8 hours a day and 5 days a week, every fortunate in this world must be on your side!