In research frameworks can be created to help understand the way things. The frameworks can direct production that comes out of the research. They can lead to new frameworks and they can alter themselves. They are ways to organize our thoughts and make sense of things. Categorization, labeling, sorting, reference.

The problem is getting trapped by a framework. Enjoying its organization but in reality, the framework’s existence provides no benefit. In fact, it may be and likely is blinding you to other ways of thinking.

Then the scary thing is when you do realize that the framework is just a perception, one way to look at the picture. Unfortunately the first thought is usually not “oh yeah! this is a SHAM let’s move on!!” but the face winces and wonders - “oh how much did this sham eat? how many months has it been?”

I am writing a final report and feeling the above. The second part…I almost got to moving on but was stopped by the “how?” It is a little bit worsened by considering that this is not only applicable to research but to all areas of life.

But the thing that I must remember right now is that the small every-15-minute-what-was-I-thinking winces shouldn’t be giving me large I-should-stop-doing-stuff winces. No…they are all part of some learning / growing process that is life I guess. I have to consider that these winces make my life richer.

Y’all understanding the wince I’m talking about? I bite my lower lip and suck air in. What do you do?