Research taste is an important but usually or deliberately forgotten concept in both science or technology research. There are thousands of researchers work all around the world trying to tackle problems. Some of them may not be capable, but most of them are really smart and working hard. So, what will distinguish you from them, like we can distinguish Eula from other mathematicians at his age? I guess the answer would be your research taste.
The taste would contain several aspects. First, you should have a good taste on the important problems. It makes no sense if you only solve some 'no-one-cares' problems and receive massive recognitions from others. Second, even you are solving an important problem, you should be able to identify yourself whether you are the right person to do such thing. It will not be a good idea if you are trying to solve a physical puzzle if you are a mathematician. With the right and important questions, you will still need a good taste for the possible solutions: whether they will work. Go too further in the wrong direction will waste your valuable time and destroy your confidence. OK, the last step, you have already had a good solution, your last taste will be how to present the results you got. In the history of science and technology, it is not rare that someone failed at representing themselves as a real contributor just because they failed to demonstrate what they have done and how this will impact the human.
It will be a little late for me to think about building a science taste now. But at least, it will not hurt. And, do you still remember that Einstein spent almost all his forty years on the unified filed theory? Your taste could go away even you have them once.
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