Thesis Thoughts
Monday, March 26th, 2007It’s late, and I’m wrapping up a day’s (make that three days’) worth of research for my thesis–which is due on Friday. My apologies for the lack of posting activity; look for an announcement later this week on a fun little exercise I’m doing on academic publishing.
Thought I’d offer the following inquiry in the interim:
It’s amazing how many resources can suddenly “appear” when you put your attention on a particular task.
The excuse of not being able to find what you’re looking for, then, may simply derive from not wanting to look hard enough. After all, attention and intention seem to have a generally (though perhaps not universally) causal relationship.
Makes you wonder — what would happen if we all suddenly decided that creating a better world, regardless of profession, pay, or neurosis, was more important than anything else?
(Of course, my use of the second person is only a literary–rhetorical?–device, and should be replaced with the first person. But it’s an interesting question nonetheless. 
