Another insight from R.W. Hammings:

“There is another trait that took me many years to notice, and that is the ability to tolerate ambiguity.

Most people want to believe what they learn is the truth: there are a few people who doubt everything.

If you believe too much then you are not likely to find the essentially new view that transforms a field, and if you doubt too much you will not be able to do much at all.

It is a fine balance between believing what you learn and at the same time doubting things.

Great steps forward usually involve a change of viewpoint to outside the standard ones in the field.”