Imagination

I love and hate researching...I love researching because it fills my head with thoughts, ideas, questions, concerns, realizations, and yet I hate it because of those things. I can't help but get held up with the overwhelming sources of information. Deciphering between what is accurate, what I believe and don't, what I find interesting and what bores me. I inevitably can't complete a search on one particular thing since by the time I am tired of searching I can hardly remember what I originally wanted to know (thank goodness for notes).

I wanted to know a little bit more about three gentleman that I had been introduced to through an article in TCG Magazine. The article sites them as "three iconic American critics," so I figured this would be a good place to start to understand the world of criticism in the theatrical industry. Within five minutes however, I found myself drifting off into my imagination as I stumbled through Philoctetes site. I can't help but think that my brother Norman would find this site particularly interesting (him being a social enthusiast and vastly intelligent). Yet, is what I am experiencing and understanding to be intriguing and intelligent really what others might find intriguing and intelligent. I can only hope so...otherwise I may as well bury my head in the sand for a long nap.

At any rate, this site seems chalk full of sources for conversation in a myriad of fields (since it lists them) from philosophy, the humanities, sciences, to psychology and more. What kinds of research secrets do you have for keeping on task with your search and being a successful educator of your own mind?