Abstract
ABSTRACTThis paper highlights mistakes that have helped shape my professional career. I use examples of personal, as well as technical failures to explore some guiding principles that I have found useful when navigating my professional journey. It is only the rarest of technical gurus who can afford to ignore the limitations of their personal interactions: to be impactful, the rest of us need to give as much, if not more, attention to soft skills than we do to our technical ones. I thus discuss the qualities that I think are needed to leverage technical strengths, and I outline some professional behaviours that I think are required to be effective. I also outline some high level technical themes that I have found important as a hydrologist. These cover the challenges of extrapolation, the analysis of joint interactions in compound events, the differentiation between hydrologic change and variability, and the value of separately considering different sources of uncertainty.
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