I think the best advice that I can give people is that in this career you have to have a thick skin because there's going to be lots of people who, either through a journal review, or a grant review, or something, are going to tell you something that you don't want to hear, that either your research was flawed or you're not a good writer. And then I think if you don't have a thick skin, you don't benefit from that. So to take those comments or those criticisms and treat them as ways to grow and ways to better yourself is, I think, something that I think people really have to understand. Because I've seen people get a review back, and they're just so crushed they don't want to write anymore. And that's too bad because none of us is perfect, all of us can do better, and I think you have to approach it from that standpoint.

The other thing I think that young people really need is to find good mentors and work with them because I think it's really tough, when you're first starting out, to get grants, to get papers published. I think to have someone who's older, and who's looking out for you, and is willing to help you and spend time with you, I think is really, really important. It's been critical to my career, and I think most people would say it's critical to their career to have that senior person who's going to be there to guide you, to pull you back when you went the wrong way, and to sort of give you the advice that's going to just make you a better person.