I already thought that thinking about the problem yourself is important, and basically required if you want to become a good researcher. At least that was the result of some explicit reasoning steps.
However I then talked to a person about this, and they told me basically the opposite. That it is not required to think about the problems yourself. That is okay to dedicate this thinking to other people. And that’s these people probably know better what to do than you, as they have already thought about it for a long time.
This did not sit well with me. However now I realize that some part of my brain was convinced to some degree by this argument. Now that my brain feels validated, for thinking the (likely) correct thing. Now in some sense I believe again that thinking about the problem yourself is a really important part of becoming a researcher. And that makes it easy to see, that I did not do it enough.
I guess I should be a lot more careful, about what other people put in my brain.
This post did something strange to my mind.
I already thought that thinking about the problem yourself is important, and basically required if you want to become a good researcher. At least that was the result of some explicit reasoning steps.
However I then talked to a person about this, and they told me basically the opposite. That it is not required to think about the problems yourself. That is okay to dedicate this thinking to other people. And that’s these people probably know better what to do than you, as they have already thought about it for a long time.
This did not sit well with me. However now I realize that some part of my brain was convinced to some degree by this argument. Now that my brain feels validated, for thinking the (likely) correct thing. Now in some sense I believe again that thinking about the problem yourself is a really important part of becoming a researcher. And that makes it easy to see, that I did not do it enough.
I guess I should be a lot more careful, about what other people put in my brain.