My biggest passion is not doing research (myself), but mentoring and supervision. I especially enjoy mentoring research students, PhD students, and ECRs (early career researchers). Based on a lot of personal feedback (and a shelf full of presents) as well as a very high research output of those I supervised (usually 1 top-tier publication per PhD student and year, and sometimes also from small undergraduate research projects; see list of project supervisions), I believe I'm not doing a bad job (at least not always). Hence, I created this page to share some of the advice and reflections I've found worth passing on, including resources for further reading. (Let me know what you disagree with or what should be added.) But stay skeptical; these are just my thoughts -- and they could be wrong.
First, I'd like to ground everybody in a bit of humility: those who are outstandingly successful* might be mistaken in believing it's all due to their own efforts, leading to some putting their noses in the air. I love the following video by Veritasium, pointing out the survivor bias and how much luck one requires to even get there. (It also helps those who had less luck so far, to motivate them keep pushing forward!) Hope you enjoy it:
(* I'd also like to add that "success" is a matter of your personal definition; and a win/investment in one area usually goes hand in hand with losing in another -- a fact not everybody always sees. In that sense, both reactions to learning about an outstanding track record (say, many publications per year) are perfectly valid: "wow, amazing!" and "sad...". :) I advise reflecting on this so that you don't accidentally optimize the wrong metric.)