4 - To follow the masses (silent 'm'). 
There's a lot of power in regularly picking at the same problems for several decades. 3 traps: to get discouraged & give up, to lose the initial passion & check out, and to wrongly believe you've figured it out -- substituting a real solution with the idea of having found one.
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Another one—you could dig a hole by hyper-focing on one problem making you lose sight of the evolving context in which problem exist. Or that might just be flawed research practice
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That's right often Discipline is more effective rather then Emotions... Because Discipline give better Structure and Direction to our overall energies unlike emotions, which can change depending on our mental states... Having a stable base is always useful.
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In college my advisor told me neural nets would never amount to anything. Unfortunately I believed him.
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Waymo?
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There is another trap, quite common and more lethal: follow something with all your passion for few decades and realize that it was a dead end. ... one usually does not know until it is too late...
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I've heard of this in the abstract but never truly seen it. Do you have an example in mind?
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Decades... five minutes with non-parametric categorical data and I’m already in sad mode. I need to suck it up.pic.twitter.com/pnPPz348oh
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