First Round Knockout

In college, I quickly picked up the "Study Hard, Test Easy" habit. I asked myself harder mock questions than a professor would ever ask on a test. It was much cheaper to fail in my dormroom than in the classroom.

I extended that habit to my science work. The most difficult round of peer review should be my lab group. The time, money, and energy cost of finding errors in the lab group phase is exponentially lower than cost of finding the same errors at the manuscript review phase.