>[!quote] >"A good PhD teaches you to find, and respect your boundaries, while constantly trying to push it. It teaches you to plan years ahead and work towards goals that are simultaneously abstract but large as well, with concrete practical steps. It should make “learning” second nature to you, where you don’t need courses or classes any more: you learn whatever you need to accomplish the project at hand." (ramraj07, 2025). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30902418 >[!quote] >"Typically, up until a Ph.D - you are given a question and then asked for an answer which more often than not exists. Suddenly, in a Ph.D - not only do you not know the answer, you don't know the question too. The craft to come up with an important question, create a well-defined scope and then answer the question from different perspectives is the heart of a Ph.D program. The true skill is the ability to "learn to learn". The transferrable skill is to probe around for questions which are important, define them and then go ahead to answer them." (tchalla, 2025). ## References - ramraj07. (2022, April 4). *Hacker News*. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30902418 - tchalla. (2021, December 29). *Hacker News*. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29724736