Recently, I chatted with several young scholars who just got their doctorates. They asked me whether it would be better to return home or develop abroad? I said, it's hard to tell. Everyone's specific situation is different. Everyone has his own aspirations and can't be generalized. When it comes to choice, we must comply with the trend of the times, and there will be no mistake. Good wind relies on power, that's the truth. The so-called conforming to the trend of the times is to see whether your field is on the rise or on the decline in countries all over the world. A person's vigorous academic life is twenty or thirty years. In his lifetime, if he wants to make some decent achievements, the choice of road is very important, especially when he is young. Less gossip. The following suggestions are expected to be helpful to young people.

1. We must teach and teach core courses. If you can have the opportunity to teach foreign students in English, of course, it is best. The importance of teaching is self-evident. It is especially important for a young doctor who has just graduated. Why is it important? First of all, doctor, this name doesn't mean literally. It means broad and profound. You know everything. On the contrary, with the division of disciplines becoming more and more detailed, most doctoral topics are actually very narrow. In other words, the knowledge of doctoral students is not wide. Some people may say that doctors have taken many basic courses at the undergraduate, master's and even doctoral stages. Now they emphasize giving courses to undergraduates or postgraduates. How much help can it help doctors accumulate and improve their knowledge? Is it a waste of time? My understanding and experience are very different. Not to mention the undergraduate and graduate course learning experience of young doctors, the main purpose is to obtain good grades or credits. When you really teach, if you want to really teach others, you will have very high requirements for the depth and breadth of knowledge in the teaching materials, which forces you to read a large number of relevant books and documents in a short time. It is very important to consolidate one's foundation in a few years. Without a good foundation, a person will be very guilty and have no development potential.

2. Build your own team. A person is also a team. What do you mean? We should have the consciousness of independent scientific research. Of course, there are excellent graduate and doctoral students to join, warmly welcome! The cultivation of graduate students should not be the shopkeeper, but grow up with them. The peak period of a person's academic career is the five years after graduation, which basically determines the height that a person can reach in his life. In fact, it is the height that a team can reach. Some people say that it is also important to integrate into a large team at the beginning, and there is nothing wrong. In fact, this is not contradictory to your independent scientific research. The best integration is that you have something unique. In a large team, your small team is necessary and irreplaceable, not dispensable.

3. Continue to produce results. Frankly speaking, the most important manifestation of this achievement is the paper, a high-level paper. How to define high-level papers? That is the papers published in the mainstream journals in this field. The so-called "paper only" opposed by the national management level has nothing to do with you. It's just something that needs to be improved at the management level. The purpose of publishing papers and high-level papers is to have peer exchanges at home and abroad. Papers are the best carrier for communication with peers. Why keep publishing? This is not contradictory to grinding a sword in ten years. Grinding a sword in ten years is just a metaphor, not that it takes ten years to produce results. The advantage of continuous publication is to keep communicating with peers at home and abroad. Through the repeated communication of papers, you can get feedback. This feedback will tell you what level you are in your field globally. The advantage is that you are neither self belittling nor arrogant. In addition, a good paper publishing record is very helpful for you to continue to get the fund, which is common in academic circles all over the world. At present, China, you really have the ability and will never be buried. In this sense, this is the best era in history.

4. Actively participate in social services closely related to academia. For example, when reviewing manuscripts for high-level journals, many young people feel that this kind of unpaid work is a waste of time and does no good. That's shortsighted. To judge whether a young scholar is active, in addition to publishing your achievements for peers to see, your various service contributions in the academic community are also very important, such as the editorial board of a journal. The standard for the journal editor to absorb the new editorial committee is to see the quantity and quality of your manuscripts. Therefore, don't be too utilitarian. The mentality of giving and helping others for free will not only make you happy, but also have unexpected gains.

5. Continue to learn English well. There is no need to say more about the importance of English. I have many friends who have returned home for many years. They still insist on listening to English news and reading a lot of English literature every day. What impressed me most was a young academician in China. At an international conference, he opened his mouth and gave a report. A foreign professor Daniel next to me sighed that the old gentleman's English was great! Later, after chatting, I learned that the old man had been learning English every day for decades in China and had formed a habit. Not only was his academic level first-class, but his English level surprised foreigners.

6. Always fight on the front line. We have an old saying, "those who work hard rule people, and those who work hard rule people". This sentence is wrong in contemporary times, especially academically. Some people often sigh, "I'm just a worker". The implication is not as beautiful as those tall leaders. In fact, what's wrong with being a front-line worker? Those who really work always have first-hand information. When you discuss with others and make a report, you are the person with the most bottom of your heart. Academically, people really look up to each other is always those real skills and ideas. Therefore, you don't need to spend too much time on how to have a good relationship with Daniel, because what Daniel values most is your dry goods, not anything else.

7. Keep learning new skills. Now this fast-growing world will soon be eliminated by eating the old capital of the doctoral stage. What should I do? Lifelong learning. Specifically, make a plan for yourself, what books you must read every year (especially in winter and summer vacation), especially most professional books, what new programming skills you need to master, what new instruments and equipment you need to learn and master, and so on. There is no end to learning.

8. Some people say that EQ is very important for returning home for development. In my opinion, the highest EQ is to be calm, reliable, honest and trustworthy, and positive. No one doesn't like such young people, such colleagues and such friends.

9. Last but not least. Those who are not married seize the time to get married, and those who do not have children seize the time to have children. All struggle is for a good life.