Messiness in my life is never welcomed, yet certainly present. I like to keep my tasks in a linear fashion, taking care of one thing at a time on my way up to a clear schedule. Whether that be planning for teaching, doing my grad classwork, coaching at the gym, or having some time to do as I please. I love to check tasks off my "to-do" list, which is hopefully organized. But the weirdest thing about it all, is that although I love to be organized, it never lasts long, and I do not get too stressed, easily. I usually retain an optimistic outlook, no matter what is going on around me.
Reading this article, it felt pretty messy to follow along with, so I used other's memos to help synthesize what I was thinking. This is typically how I get through the process of coming up with something to write about though, a messy web of ideas until I finally see a linear thought process. Which is why the piece about casting around resonated with me in the article.
Although I like to go off feel for a lot of things, I also like to have cold hard evidence in my research to help prove points, or to have something to at least base my ideas off of. So that is where the article and I disagreed a little bit. Although the messiness usually helps me find out what I want to argue, I then like having data to support it, so I am definitely somewhere in the middle. Hopefully I find that balance when working on my research project, so I can remain optimistic throughout the process and not a stressed out mess.
You definitely need data, Cooper, but the data comes from the process of addressing the questions. Don't put the cart before the horse :)
ReplyDeleteCooper- I feel the same way about having hard evidence!!
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