Love your article. I have a question about the concept of 'me-search' (as I'm very much guilty of it). What research topic is not chosen for personal motivation? To support, to oppose, to change, to deepen, or, simply, to understand ourselves - all research to some degree is personal and self-motivated, if a researcher can hope to create a sustainable study habit. Or is the point of ‘me-search’ more about confirmation bias? Anyway, keep it up :)
Thank you! I wouldn’t even call “me-search” a concept as much as a term academics throw around flippantly when they work on a paper that sort of overlaps with their own life. I fully agree with you - all research is personal! In fact, it always annoys me when quantitative researchers claim some sort of inherent objectivity - all research is personal and no research is objective. It’s why I love writing my newsletter — my research can be as openly personal as I want it to be!
Yes, this is exactly what I meant, you put it so well! If there's on thing I disliked about academia was the necessity to hide my motivations to study something, as if making my paper impersonal would make it magically more authoritative... I think that if people were more honest about their POV/interests, research would be less mystifying most of the times!
I love this, and all of this resonates. So relieved that my toddler is an unstoppable force of his own with incredibly strong opinions and willpower to follow through (that I lack), so it doesn't matter what I think we should do, he's just going to do what he plans to do anyway.
Love your article. I have a question about the concept of 'me-search' (as I'm very much guilty of it). What research topic is not chosen for personal motivation? To support, to oppose, to change, to deepen, or, simply, to understand ourselves - all research to some degree is personal and self-motivated, if a researcher can hope to create a sustainable study habit. Or is the point of ‘me-search’ more about confirmation bias? Anyway, keep it up :)
Thank you! I wouldn’t even call “me-search” a concept as much as a term academics throw around flippantly when they work on a paper that sort of overlaps with their own life. I fully agree with you - all research is personal! In fact, it always annoys me when quantitative researchers claim some sort of inherent objectivity - all research is personal and no research is objective. It’s why I love writing my newsletter — my research can be as openly personal as I want it to be!
Yes, this is exactly what I meant, you put it so well! If there's on thing I disliked about academia was the necessity to hide my motivations to study something, as if making my paper impersonal would make it magically more authoritative... I think that if people were more honest about their POV/interests, research would be less mystifying most of the times!
I love this, and all of this resonates. So relieved that my toddler is an unstoppable force of his own with incredibly strong opinions and willpower to follow through (that I lack), so it doesn't matter what I think we should do, he's just going to do what he plans to do anyway.
Very nice post!
Thanks!!!