Posted by alexandra_k on October 10, 2013, at 1:57:21
In reply to internal motivation, posted by alexandra_k on October 10, 2013, at 1:45:55
the summarizing...
one highly respectable person once told me that that was half of what we do.
i'm seeing that now... and how if you do it right, you need never do it again. i see articles and books by certain people... and they have little summary speels of this and that and they just repeat the summary speel they have already written. if you are involved in a certain line of research then the summary speel probably gets updated every year or so in light of more recent developments... maybe you end up with more condensed / expanded versions for different purposes...
over time you can accumulate fields / research groups / people's contributions / points people have made on the significance or importance of this or that and the dangers of these other things over there...
and of course you develop your own take on the importance / significance of this or that finding for this or that theoretical point...
but it is about connecting with something greater than yourself. being a part of something. incorporating aspects of others. hoping others go on to incorporate aspects of you...
i do have a lot of... confusions. something along the lines of 3/4 understandings... i guess... i should have internal motivation to summarize for myself... see the full picture. then (and only then) once the summary is out...
one gets to stand back from it.
and...
THINK.
then what one thinks might actually matter.
only... one can get lost in trying to do a literature review properly... even a book review...
something something about a map that was so accurate and highly detailed you couldn't unroll it for fear of upsetting the farmers.
sigh.
whatever is to become of me?
(i suspect there is some reciprocal process between standing back and thinking (using that thinking to inform which aspects of the summary are important) and writing the summary (and using that to inform the thinking part of the process)
round and f*ck*ng round.
intrinsic value. f*ck yeah.
spinning circles. seems to me.
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