A mentor translated confusing research questions into plain language so the speaker understood what was actually being asked. The mentor also warned against spending years on a broad topic, pushing instead to narrow the focus, finish it, and explore bigger questions later.
For me, it was— I was all over the place, and he helped me to realize that again, some of the questions that they were asking, they were like really simple questions, but they were structured in such a way that were really, really confusing. So he could actually put the question like in layman's term, and he's like, okay, so this is what they're really asking. I'm like, oh, okay, that makes sense. There was a point that I already passed my topic and I kept going back. He said, he's like, you know, you could stay here and you could go back and forth with this for the next 6 or 7 years. That's what you want to do. And I'm like, no. It's like, okay, so it's like, you know, just narrow this down. Let's get this out of the way. When you're finished, you can do a zillion different research, whatever you want to do, but right now you just need to do this. So we're gonna focus in on this because there are lots of
