'I'm not as annoying as I was...'

I’m annoying, but I’m not as annoying as I was. I was very brash and extrovert to try and solicit people’s opinions. I sometimes (not always) wish at the start of my career I’d known how to get people’s real views without being so outrageous; I made a lot of people annoyed when I didn’t need to. But I learnt to get real time critical feedback and good criticism is so important to do good science.