Asking what is the point of doing research is like asking what is the point of having sex. The activity itself is the point. If you need extra motivation to engage in it, something is wrong.
For research scholars, doing research is the goal and everything else they do is subservient to it. They teach and carry out service obligations because these activities allow them to do research. They don’t carve out time every day to do research. Instead, they carve out time from research to do other things.
I only recently became a real research scholar of the kind I’m describing here, and the feeling is amazing.
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