Monday, November 06, 2006
Thinking is research too
Over on his blog Pip has a post about keeping up with all the reading and discussions. Have a look. My advice: take a walk. Seriously. It's easy to get so caught up in trying to keep up with everything that has been written that you don't stop to think about what it all means. That's not right. In your essays I always urge you when faced with a choice between depth and breadth to go for depth. Similarly when you are researching bear in mind that thinking is research too. The classic graduate student procrastination according to Mat Groening's classic 'Life is Hell' strip:
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Great comic strip...and very true as during the last year of my thesis I was busy trying to read extra all the time!
True also for academics. How can you finish that paper, when you've not read that possibly crucial/probably irrelevant book on X!
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