Hallelujah!

Today I learned a valuable lesson: don't fight one's natural cognitive patterns.  At the beginning of this exam process I had set myself a timeline which incorporated working on a question per week and giving myself one week for final revisions and proofreading/editing.  For the last two weeks I have immersed myself in research, but the writing has been a real struggle. The thought of sitting down to write was actually making me very anxious and almost ill.  I was really beginning to doubt my ability to complete the exam.  When I finally let myself wander afield a bit, to research all of the questions at the same time and work back and forth on all of them, the writing suddenly began to flow.  Now, I know from experience that my mind does not react well to being bounded to one line of thought at a time through to completion.  My mind is naturally more divergent than that.  Why it took me two weeks to finally realize that "all roads lead to Rome" so to speak with my three questions, I don't know. Now that I have finally let myself walk parts of all of those roads at the same time....hallelujah and Eureka!  The writing has flowed so well today.  Leonard Cohen singing "Hallelujah"

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Kym