Life is a journey that requires us to define the very facet of its unique makings. As weird as this might sound, I have been put to the test of defining life. Perhaps, I am exaggerating my circumstances a bit. What am I talking about? I am referring how much information we process on a daily bases. We have to deal with a lot of information. From each of these information that reaches our hands, we are also forced to identify which one is fact and which one is false. How do you know the truth from fiction?
Like I mention in class today, it is simple to be in deep understanding of things. One of my supervisors (I had many supervisors) during my whole journey of PhD (by the way it is still a work in progress) had mention to think critically we need to do three things: 1) Think; 2) Read; and 3) Write. She did mention the order of these three processes was up to me. I had to find what was the right formula for my situation. I totally agree with her.
So when you are reading a piece of information, you need to pause and think. Once you have thought it through, you need to examine your thoughts. If you are able to reproduce it in a piece of writing, you have a piece that have been examined critically. So is this enough?
With the Phd, the answer is no. You are not writing a novel every little thing you say and think about the piece of work must be backed up with literature or for that matter the proof of lack of literature. It is not as easy as said. It is hard for you to actually decide which is fact and which is an opinion (which is not proved by scientific studies).
This piece is written to think about how in life you are always faced with lots of information. You cannot take everything as the truth you must evaluate all the information that you have to determine which is true and which is false.
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