How to train your subconscious mind for research
·First of all a few points to believe or accept about research :
1) You will never be able to learn or understand anything fully neither yourself, your parents, partner, children or your research topic. Even scientist like Richard Feynman or other researchers, scientist still crave to study because they will be able to better understand a topic. That’s why Prof always give more weightage to relations with bachelor students.
2) Second I have 3 more years to complete the PhD. And 3 years is a long time to work on yourself and towards research for outputs.
3) Only positive thoughts and giving yourself command will never help. Only actual work will, which is I know and defined below (give yourself goals to complete daily regarding problem or research perspective)
4) I have judged my skills either learning skills or problem solving skills a lot. And it always pulled me down from the work. Comparing myself to others because i thought it will help me to learn new things from others. But it did not help much in work or study concerns. So you its important to believe yourself first. No matter how was the journey till now. Yes I have 5 years gap in career. I wasted my 20s. But I am sure about that believing yourself and in your skills will only help you in future. If your mind tells yourself again and again that you cant do it. Tell yourself that you can. Not faking it till you make it. I will fail and learn from the process. But also actually believing in your self in the process. That I am good at actual work also. Its not only about chasing something but also about being.
5) What perspective I know about research are mathematics and problem solving.
6) Creating is better than consuming. This statement is above publishing papers. But as a daily research activity
7) Keep stress measurable just like manja of the kite. Dont keep it tight that kite cannot fly up and dont keep it so loose that you loose the grip of it.
8) PhD is study only so routine, discipline will help, same as it will help Peehu.
9) What needs to be improved is to be measured.
how to train your subconscious mind
I know that research is a journey :
1) you publish papers with the work. 2) you try to understand the problem better in the process.
About publishing papers :
It is said everywhere that you dont have to get perfect problem or solution to publish. Publishing happens with progressive work also. And I tried giving myself timelines to publish and it is the first step and easiest thing to do. I thought about a few ideas to work on. But I have to define how they connect to the main problem first
About problem :
- I felt like changing the topic, rather change the paper. What are your fears regarding the topic? I asked question with some vague question that is how the temporal aspect of a video can be understood. Instead of understanding the topic as well as the question was not focused to the topic ie audio-visual
- Intrinsic motivation for research : If I am not harming my own research. Discipline?
- One best advice was feed your brain for the best information to proceed or better understand the problem.
- I try a new perspective for research but again and again it gets lost in research.
- ==give yourself activities for every day to advance. It is not helping to come everyday and cry that I am not able to work. give a minimal one activity to do in case you are stuck like this.
- push yourself to increase your sitting from long hours. Stop listening to dopamine every time
- I wish to work on the research topic from two perspectives : problem solving and system thinking. give yourself activities regarding that also.
In response to the question “how to train your subconscious mind for research?” every AI chatbot gave the same answer, 1) feed your mind with good information 2) ask precise actionable questions so that it remains clear to the mind what to think about? 3) Ask good questions. Where dont try to find an answer to the problem. I found various answers to the questions unconsciously like just waking up from sleep. So keep a journal for questions like this through journaling
Defining activities :
- read paper regarding the topic when bored not to get a new perspective, but to get how the problem was solved, what new was worked upon, even a bad paper can help in understanding the concept map of the problem.
- ask questions : regarding the problem or paper
- prepare an excel file or a book to write about the questions of the problem or the question of the paper addressed or new innovations.
- prepare a system concept for the problem either for every paper or for the overall problem.
- implementing a paper is only one activity. I still dont know how to use for the bigger picture. give me that what is the use of implementing the paper. I feel like I am stuck. i dont know what is the next step after reproducing the paper. Probably it gives system thinking approach for the problem. But how to use it. i dont know how to define experiments. Asking questions like what assumptions it holds, what is the claim. You have to sit with the paper. Keeping the focus intact.
- keep going again and again to the youtube video : # Unlocking Your Intuition: How to Solve Hard Problems Easily to understand what are the other ways or activities that I can do for problem solving.
- follow mathematics concepts for the problem or game theory concepts for the problem as it is multimodal problem.
- working on conceptual or theoretical level. learning new concepts in deep learning
- follow up with yourself or reflect about the process. If you are stuck, or what approach you are following.
Initially when i looked out for intrinsic quality necessary for research the very best answer waa curiosity. I don’t know how prone it is.
But i started with the interest to study. It is following up with teh skill of problem solving. And the intrinsic quality that I am finding useful is…..When for the first time I watched youtube video about subconscious problem solving. It was clear to me that I am going in the right direction and it really boosted my confidence to go ahead. It felt like I have found a missing part of the puzzle. Today I was asking different questions about the problem like what different aspects of research can be it probably gave me confidence in the direction.
No matter how much I believe myself to be problem solver, nothing can beat the actual work.
But the question was how to motivate yourself to come daily and do actual work. It cant be discipline or curiosity. It cant be the big statements like to serve the humanity or science. According to chatgpt it is evident progress. Progress towards understanding something, or doing something which I couldnt yesterday
I always found technology exciting.
For me it felt like hope and a second chance to believe in myself. Other than that its about creation. I was always dependent on my friends or parents or sibling for creation either it is food or drawing or a small writing for speech in school. I never gained confidence for creativity in myself. Btech was the first time when I created a computer vision project by myself. I still feel proud even for that small project of mouse control using finger gesture. It is a chance to gain confidence in my creativity at problem solving level. Thats what I know.
Yes chatgpt was true about the intrinsic motivation for me is learning a new framework to work around. Above I created a framework. And I am feeling it easier to work.
Last thing is to define activity daily and adapt yourself to finish 6 hours deep work daily.