Day 19: New Mindmap for Intro Chapter
I don't know how many times I have written and re-written my introduction chapter! The thing is, if I have been working on the same file and on the same computer and with the same software, it wouldn't be too difficult to track.
But my working habit is as erratic as my thought and wild imagination would take me! So, that's too bad indeed. Because I think I may have made a new world record already for the most-rewritten opening chapter dissertation in history! hee hee hee
Well, but this time, I do have a lot of confidence! That's the big difference! I made very little change to my latest installment. And I sort of have pretty clear idea where I am heading to. I'm far from finishing the first intimidating chapter, but at least I don't get stuck at the first two headings anymore (background and importance of issues).
Now, for the first time, I think I am quite articulate about it. At least I am quite firm on my standpoint and know from what angle I'm going to look at Bushido.
Therefore, without any further explanation, let's take a look at my latest installment:
Therefore, without any further explanation, let's take a look at my latest installment:
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Today I also discovered in my private collection at home a textbook I bought when I first started this Ph.D. program that I never got around to read yet titled, "Mass Communication Theory." At that time I bought that book out of sheer "hunch" because I felt that since I'm a graduate of School of Communication Arts, I'd better know a thing or two about such theories.
Well, in fact we all have to take those courses as an undergrad. And, I'm so embarrassed to admit to the whole world, I got an A in it. How, I really had no idea! The thing is, after 20 years of not using it at all, consciously, that is, in my line of work, it is really difficult to try to recall any of those theories.
So, you could say that I bought that book that was written by one of the faculty of my School, Faculty of Communication Arts at Chulalongkorn University, out of sheer sense of insecurity! I simply need something to fall back on in case somebody ask me one day!
And, would you believe it, approximately 3 years after I bought that book (without much chance to really read it except for flipping through the first few chapters), I picked it up again today and delved right in enthusiastically with so much hunger. Why? Because now the focus on my dissertation has become chrystalized and I realized that that book was sent to me somehow with a definite purpose! I am going to do a Content Analysis for my Dissertation! And it is described in minute details in the very last chapter of the fateful book!
As I read more and more, I realized that I have been doing content analysis all along without realizing it! Even in my line of work when I was in the private sector. It has become my second nature. We just did not call it that way, that's all. And when you are in the setting of a private sector, the word "theory" did not come up that much. You just work on your own experience and more of a guts feeling or tried and true approach of the information you have from the field.
Needless to say, this boosts up another confidence for me, which I have to watch it carefully, otherwise I would get too carried away and it could get too dangerous now that I am trying to do things in the academic field. I could not operate like a 007 I used to anymore! I need a backup team, so to speak. And my backup team presents itself as all kind of references, and theory!
I start to understand now, how some people, once their engine has started, could continue to work around the clock, especially young people! Although I'm not that young anymore (unless "young-at-heart" also counts!,) I feel that I could go on and on non-stop on my project. I have to remind myself all the time to take a break to eat, exercise, sleep, and do other things that human beings do!
And this reminds me that I should have gone down to exercise long time ago already! Gee, I think I have spent too much time polishing my ideas on my mindmap! Never mind, I know that the clearer I could get my ideas upfront, the easier my work would be later. I don't want to rewrite my intro chapter and in essence rewrite the world record again, that is!
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**N.B.** Just realize I should change my objective a bit from looking for "Mindfulness Theme" to "Mindfulness Motif." I think this is called Mindlessness! :-p
Well, in fact we all have to take those courses as an undergrad. And, I'm so embarrassed to admit to the whole world, I got an A in it. How, I really had no idea! The thing is, after 20 years of not using it at all, consciously, that is, in my line of work, it is really difficult to try to recall any of those theories.
So, you could say that I bought that book that was written by one of the faculty of my School, Faculty of Communication Arts at Chulalongkorn University, out of sheer sense of insecurity! I simply need something to fall back on in case somebody ask me one day!
And, would you believe it, approximately 3 years after I bought that book (without much chance to really read it except for flipping through the first few chapters), I picked it up again today and delved right in enthusiastically with so much hunger. Why? Because now the focus on my dissertation has become chrystalized and I realized that that book was sent to me somehow with a definite purpose! I am going to do a Content Analysis for my Dissertation! And it is described in minute details in the very last chapter of the fateful book!
As I read more and more, I realized that I have been doing content analysis all along without realizing it! Even in my line of work when I was in the private sector. It has become my second nature. We just did not call it that way, that's all. And when you are in the setting of a private sector, the word "theory" did not come up that much. You just work on your own experience and more of a guts feeling or tried and true approach of the information you have from the field.
Needless to say, this boosts up another confidence for me, which I have to watch it carefully, otherwise I would get too carried away and it could get too dangerous now that I am trying to do things in the academic field. I could not operate like a 007 I used to anymore! I need a backup team, so to speak. And my backup team presents itself as all kind of references, and theory!
I start to understand now, how some people, once their engine has started, could continue to work around the clock, especially young people! Although I'm not that young anymore (unless "young-at-heart" also counts!,) I feel that I could go on and on non-stop on my project. I have to remind myself all the time to take a break to eat, exercise, sleep, and do other things that human beings do!
And this reminds me that I should have gone down to exercise long time ago already! Gee, I think I have spent too much time polishing my ideas on my mindmap! Never mind, I know that the clearer I could get my ideas upfront, the easier my work would be later. I don't want to rewrite my intro chapter and in essence rewrite the world record again, that is!
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**N.B.** Just realize I should change my objective a bit from looking for "Mindfulness Theme" to "Mindfulness Motif." I think this is called Mindlessness! :-p
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