{"id":28663,"date":"2022-09-01T14:08:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=28663"},"modified":"2022-09-01T14:08:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:08:49","slug":"to-be-or-not-to-be-tenacious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/to-be-or-not-to-be-tenacious\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be or Not To Be… Tenacious"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would define my academic career thus far with the word tenacity<\/em>. I have always put in the time, effort, and dedication needed to succeed. Sonke Ahrens\u2019 quoting Luhmann saying, \u201cI only do what is easy\u2026\u201d came as a bit of a shock to me. That is contradictory to my own academic experience.<\/p>\n

My tenacity comes from spending most of my life believing I was stupid. I cannot ever remember my parents giving me positive feedback or encouraging me, and so I worked hard, thinking I could somehow earn their love. I hit my stride academically in graduate school. It felt audacious to pursue a Master of Divinity, but I knew that God called me to it. I was often surprised by my achievements, but slowly, I gained confidence in my intelligence. I still struggle with self-doubt, but I remind myself that God called me to this, and He has given me what I need to succeed.<\/p>\n

Since grade school I have I loved to read and collect books. I thought that in order to understand a book, you had to read every word. In graduate school, I had classes where I was required to submit a reading report stating that I had read everything assigned. The idea of not reading every single word is foreign to me. While I often highlight and make notes when I read, the methods put forth by Adler and Van Doren in How to Read a Book<\/em> are critical to learn as I continue. I simply do not have the hours in the day to read as I have read before.<\/p>\n

I have much yet to learn about how to read and how to take notes. I consider myself an excellent note-taker in lectures. I can type faster than I write and often take almost verbatim notes in lectures. I can maintain an organized approach even with the most tangential of lecturers. I have said that if I cannot keep up with taking notes in a lecture, the speaker is going too fast. I keep documents of book quotes when working on papers. The problem \u00a0is that having notes in folders on my computer based on books, classes, dates, or conferences does not help to further questions, knowledge, or insight. It makes finding information difficult. There is little to no ongoing interaction with my notes.<\/p>\n

I enjoy writing. I have presented papers at conferences, choosing to write simply for the joy of writing. One of the best habits I put in place during my graduate education was to have an editor for every paper I wrote. Having a second set of eyes read through the material helped to ensure that my writing was concise, understandable, and without glaring grammatical errors.<\/p>\n

Moving forward, tenacity is important, but I need to develop my ability to work smarter, not harder. I do not want to simply jump on the bandwagon of a new idea. I want to implement a system that will last. The skills I learn will help me not only in this program, but in my long term goals of continued academic engagement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would define my academic career thus far with the word tenacity. I have always put in the time, effort, and dedication needed to succeed. Sonke Ahrens\u2019 quoting Luhmann saying, \u201cI only do what is easy\u2026\u201d came as a bit of a shock to me. That is contradictory to my own academic experience. My tenacity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","cohort-dlgp01"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28665,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28663\/revisions\/28665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}