The Importance of Getting Curious

Building an Interest Inventory

Many artists acknowledge that they get tesions by themselves before they create somthing from nothing. As a writer, we might feel same way, when we need to face blank papers. It is not easy to draw our words from our head to the paper.

How can we find a good starting point of writing?

Step 1: Define three words and Brainstorm a list of reference words that you know or you want to know

• Place: Hometown, Honeymoon, the Shea Stadium, Miami Beach, the Golden Gate, Google Map, Hotel, Restaurant, Homeless, Deja vu
• Technologies: Teleportation, iPhone, Samsung, Robot, Television, Telephone, Smart Phone, Super Computer, Blue Chip, Anti-Christ
• Habits: Kite, Chat, Personal, Extra money, Helpful for relationship, Childhood, Consentration,  Hobbits, Take a walk, See Sunrising

Step 2: Review each word and Circle it, when it's according to the questions below

• Is this something that raises questions that research can help answer?
• Are they potentially interesting questions?
• Does this item get at somthing I've always wondered about?
• Might it open doors to knowledge I think is important, fascinating, or relevant to my life?

 Step 3: Generate a list of question with the circled items

• Why do I feel familiar with some place that I never had been before as we call that happening Deja vu?
• Where does the word "Honeymoon" come from?
• Why it is important to search the place by google map before we get there?
• Is it true that "the Blue Chip" is really anti-Christianity?
• Will we expect a robot as technology is developing quickly?
• Which company is better? Samsung or Apple?
• How can we define between good and bad habit?
• Is there any habit without speding money?
• How can Korean keep their traditional habit "Kite"?

Rethinking the Research Paper

Collecting Golf Balls on Driving Ranges
and Other Reflections

"Just write it"
Sometimes we find precious idea in our Journey. The journey is the private writing that we do not need to follow any public rules or structure to write. It is a field we can express whatever we want that we can be more honestly or specifically what we think in our lives. The way of rethinking the research paper is just write before we think. It is the free writing which needs the action first and the plan next.
 
What makes the writer more creatively?

Step 1: Write fast for three minutes without stopping about your opinion with agreement or disagreement on the statement

• I agree with the statement "You have to know your thesis before you start." Every time I write on paper or discuss with someone else for a specific topic, it is easy to lose the purpose of the essay or the conversation, if I am not sure what idea I like to express. Sometimes it makes me to go back and do over the whole thing. It is very important to be sure what I want to emphasis before I get into writing. For example a tree is growing up from its seed under the ground. The one invisible thing can make big different result outwardly later. I think to know my thesis is like a seed. If I do not sure what thesis in my head, then it can be useless to finish my whole essay.

Step 2: Write fast for three minutes without stopping based on your knowledge with agreement or disagreement on the statement

• I disagree with the statement "When two experts disagree, one of them has to be wrong" for couple of reasons. First, we need to understand what is mean by "disagree." It is an expression of one's opinion over the other's statement. It does not have to be either fact or wrong to support its disagreement. So that the second reason is that it can be another perspective of disagreement which it can be more than one or two. Even two experts disagree, both is just their opinions that do not need to be neither truth or false.