Universally, the frontier is a place for explorers, pioneers, and settlers to change and be changed.
I put my money (and time and attention) on neuroscience as a science frontier of my lifetime.
I have been changed by my explorations of the neuroscience frontier. Given the pace of change in the field, I developed the ability to modify previously held beliefs. Given the range of topics that could influence a project, I developed a basic working knowledge in many academic fields (from neuroanatomy to applied mathematics). In order to ask the questions worth answering, I took the time to develop deep expertise in a narrow specialty.
Those abilities also enrich my life outside of science.
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