The Experimenter has an insatiable thirst for discovery. Before you have seen the results of the experiment you're running, you've already come up with another 6 to run later this week. Perhaps you could even sneak in another before you head home this evening? You're always itching to get that next batch of data.

Your curiosity is not limited to the Big Scientific Questions – you get a thrill from the smaller discoveries too. You realised that using half the enzyme concentration actually improves your yield – a win-win! All this tweaking and experimenting makes you the go-to lab guru. Sharing your latest learnings with your labmates helps them get the most from their experiments.

It's important to take a step back from time to time though and think about the bigger picture of your research – sometimes you don't really need a better yield. Perhaps that curious mind could be better served on a more important experiment.

A chat with The Pragmatist could help you figure out which of those next 6 experiments are really worth running.