According to the latest neuroscience research, insights - moments of original thought and brilliance (which you will need in your exam) - come from three things:
1) Being stuck.
2) Making connections between previously unconnected ideas
3) Seeing contradictions.
This is happy news. Let's break it down:
1) Being stuck makes you insightful. Hooray! Then why aren't you insightful all the time, you ask? Because the key is to embrace being stuck - to accept it as part of the process, rather than use it to feel frustrated or panicked. Enjoy being stuck, and intensify your efforts to work something out. Because when you do, it will be insightful.
2) Making connections between previously unconnected ideas. This is where mindmaps come in handy. It's in the fusion of two old ideas that a new one is born. This is excellent news for Marvell and Ford students: such different texts provide huge opportunity for original connections.
3) Seeing contradictions. Look for where the similarities end. Or where the black turns to white; where the surface meaning is inverted. Where the author fails. Where the two authors differ. Embrace the contradictions!
Basically, don't expect or even desire it all to be straightforward and neat and obvious: because that would mean you would all be writing the same things. This subject wants you to be insightful - and luckily, scientists have just shown us how.
1) Being stuck.
2) Making connections between previously unconnected ideas
3) Seeing contradictions.
This is happy news. Let's break it down:
1) Being stuck makes you insightful. Hooray! Then why aren't you insightful all the time, you ask? Because the key is to embrace being stuck - to accept it as part of the process, rather than use it to feel frustrated or panicked. Enjoy being stuck, and intensify your efforts to work something out. Because when you do, it will be insightful.
2) Making connections between previously unconnected ideas. This is where mindmaps come in handy. It's in the fusion of two old ideas that a new one is born. This is excellent news for Marvell and Ford students: such different texts provide huge opportunity for original connections.
3) Seeing contradictions. Look for where the similarities end. Or where the black turns to white; where the surface meaning is inverted. Where the author fails. Where the two authors differ. Embrace the contradictions!
Basically, don't expect or even desire it all to be straightforward and neat and obvious: because that would mean you would all be writing the same things. This subject wants you to be insightful - and luckily, scientists have just shown us how.
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