Have you had any set backs in your work if so how did you overcome them?

Question: Have you had any set backs in your work if so how did you overcome them?
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  overcome,
  set back
Asked by H & F to Huma, Jack, Lucy, Miranda, Peter on 8 Nov 2016.
- Huma Shah answered on 8 Nov 2016:
  
  Hello H&F,
  
  A set back could be an academic article in which you presented new findings being rejected from a journal. In school your coursework is marked and graded, at the level of a working scientist your ‘coursework’ or research articles are either accepted or rejected.
  
  Sometimes an article can be rejected because the Editor of the journal did not feel the content is the right area/theme for their journal. If they do accept the content fits the journal’s theme, the journal’s Reviewers might reject it for all sorts of reasons.
  
  You can usually take the Reviewers’ comments/criticisms to improve the paper and send it to another journal for publication. The thing is to constantly improve and become a better scientist, so you have to deal with your articles being rejected.
  
  Another setback is when you’ve prepared a grant application to conduct collaborative research and the proposal is rejected. Again you need to think about the Funders, whether it is the EU who is funding through their Horizon2020 programme, or UK funders such as EPSRC (engineering, physical sciences research council), and where your proposal was weak. You can try and improve and revise it or plan another stronger project proposal.
  
  Best thing is to keep learning from the setbacks, it’s all part of science and pushing the boundaries of knowledge.
  
  Huma

Question: Have you had any set backs in your work if so how did you overcome them?

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