Great advice: Ten Mistakes for Physicists to Avoid

Precious advice! a must read by Dr. James D. Patterson: Ten Mistakes for Physicists to Avoid http://aps.org/publications/apsnews/201201/backpage.cfm

1. Moving Ahead Before Being Ready
2. Losing Focus
3. Not Making Fundamentals a Working Part of Memory
4. Not Focusing on Physical Ideas While Obsessing Over the Mathematics
5. Not Fitting Goals to Abilities
6. Ignoring Personal Life
7. Using Secondary Sources
8. Always Rejecting Authority
9. Letting Anger Rule Behavior
10. Not Keeping in Physical Shape