Mentor the next generation of scholars
There has never been a master plan. Ask questions. Foster an environment where everyone contributes to the work. Engage graduate students as colleagues. Mentor the next generation of scholars and leaders.
There's never been a master plan… the grad students have ideas about what we should be doing and we either do them or not, depending on if it's practical.
You have an idea. Great! Let's do a project or a book out of it. You worked on this with me. Your name is going on this book.
I find it most rewarding when I have been able to help them with their PhD or their master thesis and have been successful… I have a strong international network of people who I consider much more as friends than us colleagues. That's so rewarding.
That was the case when Phil was the director. That was the case when Hans was the director. It's the case now, and I think it will always be the case because the next generation is involved.
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