I think one of the most important determinants of success in academia is your ability to get good coauthors. Yes, some of this is endogenous. After all, the better your publications, the easier it will be for you to find good coauthors. But another part is a matter of finding coauthors that work well with you.
Adam Grant tweeted about this recently and even provided a nice graphic that explains it perfectly.
And if you find yourself working alone most of the time, consider this post a message urging you to take a chance on someone. Share an idea with a classmate. Email someone you met a conference last year. It is really hard to know whether you work well with a person until you actually try to write a paper together, but who knows. At worst, working on that one paper together will be awful, but at best, you find your professional soulmate!
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