Advice for a Young Investigator - Santiago Ramón y Cajal

This book is great. Let me explain why. First of all, please do not forget that it was written in 1897, and for its time this is a 'novel' book targeting graduate students or with Cajal's term "young investigators". Second, he tries to share all his experience and advice about how to survive as a young investigator in a complicated area, that is; Academy or any research environment. Third, he gives pieces of advice not only about how to do research but also how to cooperate or communicate with others to be able to feed your research. You may say some of his advice is too private or sometimes he is too sexist, and you might be right about it. However, conditions were completely different 120 years ago in research and you should consider every sentence he wrote was written in those times. I enjoyed this book a lot and as a "young investigator". I thought it is a nice and interesting journey for me from 2017 to 1897. It made me think how well we improved in science and research methods in the meantime.