It hasn't always easy to combine these two competing ambitions and, in retrospect, it's a shame no one steered me towards science communications, which I think would have suited me down to the ground. But careers advice has largely been absent from my life, so I have pretty much made it up as I've gone along!
Muddy water will become clear if allowed to stand undisturbed, and so too will the mind become clear if it is allowed to be still.