QI ‘inc.

“A professional notebook is a record of what you observe, hear, overhear, think about, wonder about, and worry about that connects your personal life to your personal one” writes Goodall (p. 88).

I have started keeping a researcher’s notebook that contains both personal and professional reflections to see how they overlap. I like the idea, but it is not part of my training.

“Nothing we can know about a culture or about ourselves is free from interpretation… You write what you ahve been attracted to and convinced by. You write what you have read as meaningful; you interpret what you have read as a meaningful pattern. The story of who you are, where you’ve been, what you’ve read and talked about  and argued over, what you believe in and value, what you feel compelled to name as significant” (Goodall, p. 87).