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I like the statistic... In statistics we always have the error bias. In fact is a fundamental concept for the understanding of nature. If you see this equation: y = b1 + b2 + e is one of the most beautiful one because is sensitive to the error (the e obviously), if we want to explain the data we will have to include the error. Without the error there is no predictions there is no learning, there is no changes and adaptation. If you have a successful task, may be it will be no change, because you did right (and that is great of course), but if you always have that results there no more learning. In science we know for sure that there is no absolute true. We know that the science is perfectible, that the laws are temporary and that the data and analyses can change every paradigm or theory, no matters for how so long it will be stablished it. Because that science characteristics we should love the errors, the errors allow us to change our post of view, the errors permits the change and new and renovated theories, the error make us better scientists. We have to learn how to show this to the students, when we have a failure, we have the opportunity of change the mind of one person, for good, or for the worse... If we are sensitive to this, we can build a resilient scientist, we can built a propositive and ethical person. And I think that we ned many of this.

Dear Hugo and Mathew, you two just have provided us with such incredible points. The sudden literal and metaphorical transformations within the hippocampi's analysis. As well, from addressing an issue to addressing change (perhaps solutions). There were both so relatable! I'm going back to them in a paragraph. Personally, I usually see balancing as something greater than simply sequencing. Once we incorporate the multi-dimensions of our lives (work, college, hobbies...) into one piece, there's the possibility to come up with better methods on dealing with such uniques complexities that live from the inside out of our brains. Exchanging from "single-tasking" to multitasking might seem to be the path I'll use to introduce a reversed participation into this forum - mostly when one has read Dr. Marlin's post. In fact, I state that dealing with one single personality might be even easier than labelling the need to control so many aspects at once, mostly when they represent a single thing: our lives. I don't want this to sound redundant, though, every single face of our own polyhedron is dependent to another. For an instance, a task you fail impacts on your entire schedule. These tasks don't need to be done along (together). Simply, one links A and B to C and D coordinately, dependently and adverbially until the "alphabet" becomes complete. By the end of the letters, everything is complete. Back to where I begun writing, I'll share personal experiences that were able to get my dear colleagues' posts so relatable. First, by the time of the pandemic years, both of my parents were still working at University. Home definitely looked different! The kitchen had accounting classes, the living room, computing classes and my bedroom, a study hall... Us three (my parents and I) would sit on the space between the sidewalk and the door to have lunch and talk about (guess what?) education throughout the pandemic! Dear Hugo, there were three hippocampi very confused. Secondly, I admire how brave your were, Mathew! Certainly, the guilt was a feeling I experienced whenever I tried a new hobby in the midst of days passing by, me getting older while not being able to feel like I was actually interacting with the world... Internet didn't even help! It made things worse multiple times.

As neuroscientists, we will drop/cancel/arrange life around experiments, grant proposals, manuscript submissions, etc... without hesitating; but we stop and think about the impact of participating in a passion outside of work will have on work. For me, working from home during covid helped me to see the imbalance and provided me with the time and opportunity to address the imbalance. I have given myself permission to pursue my passions outside of work with the same commitment and dedication that I have given to my career. It was not easy, and I felt a lot of guilt at first (almost like I was having an affair on work if I chose prioritise another passion).

I have always subscribed to the notion that the word "fail" is an acronym for "first attempt in learning" which in my opinion sets a more positive tone and calibrates my expectations of myself (think about learning to ride a bike: it took several attempts and a few stumbles along the way to master the skill). Also, I believe that it is important to have something else in ones life that you are passionate about (family, cooking, sports, etc...) and that you try to create a balance between this passion and neuroscience; so that when the professional failures arise (which they will), you have the other passion to reaffirm your self worth. I hope this makes sense!

The first law is that a robot shall not harm a human, or by inaction allow a human to come to harm. The second law is that a robot shall obey any instruction given to it by a human The third law is that a robot shall avoid actions or situations that could cause it to come to harm itself. Isaac Asimov´s laws

I learn from the COVID-19 pandemic that our hippocampus could be so confused... Let me explain it, it supposes that the hippocampus is related to the identification of the environment, we can distinguish the differences between a concert hall versus a restaurant, and as a consequence, we behave differentially in both places. But, what happened during the COVID-19 pandemic isolation?... suddenly the university and our home were the same places (the same as the work or elementary school, etc) at the same time in the same place we had to take our classes, in our bedroom, kitchen, study or whatever place in our house. That was the difficulty for our hippocampus, the main expectative was, "It's home, the place for rest, watching TV, playing video games, etc" However in the pandemic, we change that to; "Now is the office, the university, the seminar hall, etc", Huge change for processing!!. Consequently, our behavior started to change, and we tried to adapt, but sometimes our hippocampus failed. For example, the guy who was walking in underwear while somebody was having an interview; the guy who was having a meeting with a kitty filter; the students in pajamas in class. All these examples are a sample of hippocampus failures, at the beginning, we were having trouble in adaptation, concentration, in attention, because the context said it's a place to rest, but the reality said is your workplace now!!. Nowadays, we have to understand that the new forms of communication, interaction, and participation will be with us forever. In my case, I use the new technologies as a tool for better communication, and for a new form of interviews, but only as a tool. In my work, I'm learning to separate my private life, some times is easy to say: "We zoom on Sunday" "We zoom at night" etc, but it's not ok, we need our private spaces and our family deserves their spaces with us.