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To grad students/established professors: how do you get rid of researchphobia or just general anxiety of doing research?

So I am planning to enter grad school. I know I just have to because my dream job requires me to have at least a masters degree( I want to teach college). I only have like one or two research works (one special problem and one undergraduate thesis) and both are deemed unpublishable in journals. Now this may have put a dent on my confidence doing research but I can summarize my reasons on why I generally loathe/fear doing research:

1. What if my research is not journal worthy?
2. I feel like I lack the training to even pull off a good research topic. I haven't done a lot of laboratory techniques  on my field (cell biology). Most of my trainings are pure lecture classes with a little bit of paper reportings.(Case in point: molecular genetics. I know the gal and ara operon machinery and viral genetics but I have never done a recombinant DNA technology experiment.)  And most research technician jobs require experience so I cannot apply to those either prior to applying to grad school.
3. I feel like everything has been discovered already. 
4. They said that in academe you should be writing for grants. I don't even have the creativity to think of a good topic. My thesis was just a sub topic under a project of one of my professors, so I know the idea didn't come from me.
5. I feel like my writing skills are not up to par with like science standards. I still make grammar mistakes from time to time. 
6. I sometimes lack the comprehension skills to understand a single paper. Takes me like 2-3 days just to fully absorb everything in it. I blame my lack of hands on training lol 
7. Overall I think I just have some rejection sensitivity dysphoria lol 

How did you overcome this (if ever you went on this stage)? Any suggestions? I think I gotta clear my mind of this if I am to enter and apply to programs next year.


Your advice is greatly appreciated.
gpt
Read lots and lots of papers. Read so many papers that you properly understand them and can see the flaws in them. IME this is around the 100-200th paper mark, if you’re reading casually (which you usually will be).

Nothing shatters those rose-tinted glasses quite like reading the kind of flawed work that gets published in reputable journals. No one has discovered anything, and what they have discovered, they have incorrectly characterised. And the same will be true of your work too. Everyone’s work is a work in progress, and then we die and hand the baton on to the next generation.