You said ‘what we do does not involve being a genius, just very very persistent.’ would you say that being persistent

Question: You said 'what we do does not involve being a genius, just very very persistent.' would you say that being persistent is a key quality needed to be able to do your job?

Asked by dancingdiva94 to Yvette on 14 Jun 2010 in Categories: Scientist.
- Yvette Wilson answered on 14 Jun 2010:
  
  yes, for me it takes persistence to spend weeks trying to make an experiment work (sometimes you have made the wrong concentration of chemical or something by mistake and it takes a long time to figure out why nothing happens). some of the work is very tedious – for example the past week all I have been doing is cutting bits of leaf tissue off barley plants (12 000 so far) and putting them in a freezer to analyse later! that gets tiring.
  
  It also takes a long time to build up enough knowledge on your area of research to be able to make effective decisions on what experiments to do.

Question: You said 'what we do does not involve being a genius, just very very persistent.' would you say that being persistent is a key quality needed to be able to do your job?