Day 9: Going Quanti? I Must Have Gone Crazy!

It's not difficult to guess that math and I do not look eye to eye!

In fact, thanks to the educational system in Thailand, I did not have much chance to make any eye contact with math and stuff since Grade 9 in High School because I happened to choose the English-French major.

So, the idea of trying to do my dissertation based on a quantitative reseacrh laden with math and statistical equations is a bit appalling, if not surprising.

But, worse comes to worst, it may be my only remaining option?

Today, this idea sort of presented itself to me. Reluctantly, I made a note of it in my Google Notebook. Well, who knows, I may really have to use it later, when all else fails, that is!

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Factors involved in this study are:

• Mindfulness

• Bushido

• Budo

• Transformational Leadership Development

How about:

1. Find the relationship between Mindfulness and Transformational Leadership Development (Using the concept of Mindfulness in Buddhism and Transformational Leadership Theory in Psychology to develop tools to measure such relationship.)

2. Find the relationship between Mindfulness and Bushido during Tokugawa period (by content analysis in the period's Bushido literature)

3. Find the relationship between Mindfulness in Koryu Budo (by observant participation.)

If it can be proved that

• Mindfulness is an important factor that contributes positively to transformational leadership deelopment, and
  

• that same "mindfulness" exists abundantly in Bushido way of living and Budo practice,
  

• then, it may be possible to say that Bushido and Budo contribute positively to transformational leadership development.

Which means, I'm done!



Oh...the suffering of having to go through all this!


Kids, don't try Ph.D. studies at home! :-p


I'd rather be in my Meditation Retreat! :'-(