First of all, you should browse all the articles and academic papers of tutors, brothers and sisters, successful application reports of NSFC, unsuccessful application reports, concluding reports, horizontal project reports and consulting reports, so as to know where you are, what tutors and previous generations have done in this field, which is equivalent to giving you scientific research literacy.
2. Finding and decomposing problems is the source of innovation.
If you can't even find the problem or don't know how to decompose it, then the basic skills of scientific research need to be strengthened and the way of thinking in scientific research needs to be changed. Participate in lectures by well-known experts or fund committees or ministries. You can hear many descriptions of practical problems, which may be how to solve them. Problem-oriented is often the starting point of our research. Don't trust any authority. Dare to question everything. The tutor may be wrong. Many major innovations are challenges to authority, and there are countless examples of this. So the problem is to observe more detailed problems or problems that have happened. We are often used to questions. I suggest you take a look at the annual Ig Nobel Prize.
3. Reading literature-the path dependence of getting innovative inspiration or solving problems.
Read literature, not books. I think it is very important to read literature if you want to find your own innovation. what do you think? First of all, prepare a modest notebook (which can be named scientific research inspiration book), preferably with a thick cover and a pen. Go to the periodical reading room of the library, and calm down the questions you thought and heard before 1 2 (also recorded in your special scientific research inspiration book), and add them up for at least 2 months. If there is any inspiration while reading the periodical, immediately. A good memory is not as good as a bad writing. Indicate the source. What problems did your inspiration solve? What did this document give you? If you had other ideas along this inspiration, just follow this idea until you don't know what to write, and then stop to read the second article. When reading a periodical, it is best to look at it from the catalogue and skim it. There are few Chinese periodicals for experimental scientific research, which are more professional.
4. Use the Internet-a good assistant for innovation.
Of course, there are many professional forums and databases on the Internet, and I classify them as electronic documents. How to read electronic documents? According to the above three items, you get a lot of inspiration from paper periodicals. Now, if you ask for your inspiration keywords or themes from electronic documents, you should also write them down immediately according to the method of 3, or set up a word document or special software to intercept what you are interested in and indicate your inspiration source. This is very important. Some people read the literature and throw it aside. They read too much and throw away too much. In addition, when reading electronic documents, be sure to turn off QQ and forums, and don't let these things interrupt your inspiration.
5. Accumulation-innovative skills and key means.
Follow steps 3 and 4, and you will accumulate a lot of inspiration. A thick notebook or a long word file, review it again. Remember, there is no innovation without accumulation! This accumulation does not mean downloading documents from the database and putting them into the calculation, but the accumulation of your bright spots or inspirations that can be seen in your notes at any time after reading the documents. In this way, when you find the relevant literature and think you can write a short paper, you should start writing at once. Don't delay, don't make excuses, know that the passion for writing will be lost and can't be found back. Write the essay well. If you think you can, you can submit your papers to some magazines. If you think it's average, you can vote for the average core. If you think it's really bad, you can vote for the non-core. Here, some classmates and colleagues around me have an idea that you can send it if you want. I don't think this is a good idea. Even if it is a non-core article, I will still be very happy when I see my own things typing, which will give me great spiritual motivation.
6. Go to nature-get an innovative ecological heart.
In fact, many problems we are solving now come from nature, which is the source of life and the origin of innovation. Whether you are doing theoretical research or social research, it is very important to keep an ecological heart. Too utilitarian, impetuous and dusty heart is the killer of innovation. Go to nature, don't visit any streets and supermarkets. I guess some people will say, what does this have to do with finding innovation? Climb high and look far. I wonder, if you are in such a noisy supermarket and so many handsome guys and beautiful women pass by you, will your nerves rest? Will your mind flash? So, if you are tired of staying in the lab or dormitory and don't know what to do, you might as well take your own research inspiration book and pen and go to the suburbs or climb mountains to broaden your mind. Maybe your depression will go out and inspiration will come in.
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