Question: Are you ambitious when it comes to experiments?

Ian Hands-Portman answered on 11 Mar 2014:

Always – experiments don’t always work ( in fact they often fail ) but if you don’t set out to stretch your abilities and push the limits of what your equipment can do then you won’t make much progress and discover something new.

You can learn more by being overambititious ( within limits – don’t skydiving without a parachute or anything.. ) and failing than you can by taking the safe option. Faliure isn’t something to be avoided!