1/ There is a truly magical shift in perspective that occurs when you're able to move from "oh no, this scholar stole my idea [ten years before I started grad school!" towards "oh wow, look, a fellow traveler!" Broken parts of academia inhibit this transition.
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#phdlife,#postdoclife,#gradlife,#proflife} heuristic for intellectual maturation, use your reaction to other people making the same arguments you'd make or like to make as a guide.2 replies 1 retweet 12 likesShow this thread -
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1/2 way through my master thesis I realised many points I wanted to make had been made in a book I had purposely dismissed years before because a) i thought it was bad, & b) it was too close to my own ideas & i wanted to come to my own conclusions. Humbling & valuable experience.
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I realised it that a) i was being intellectually arrogant and that while it may have been wrong about some things it was a great book, and b) i was now free to use it in the lit rev and move in to new territory in which to build my own ideas
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