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Cultivating Depth and Stillness in Research
A consistent challenge in my development as a researcher has been: how to cultivate deep, stable concentration in the face of complex, ill-structured creative problems?
In roles oriented around operation and execution, I benefited enormously from standard “productivity” advice. Task managers and time-planning tools were essential. But now, task
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“Why is this so hard? Because you’re utterly habituated to steady progress—to completing things, to producing, to solving. When progress is subtle or slow, when there’s no clear way to proceed, you flinch away. You redirect your attention to something safer, to something you can do. You jump to implementation prematurely; you feel a compulsion
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Research is an art. A soft craft. A quiet ritual. (…) To research is to follow a scent. (…) What I learned from all this is simple: surface-level searches won’t do. You need to dig. You need to get creative. (…) Saved it. It became a breadcrumb for later. (…) Bibliographies are treasure maps. Follow the names. Follow the hyperlinks. Find the
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