Abstract
When conducting doctoral research, one often feels riveted by the work. It is impressive to be able to go to town on a theme that interests and seems important as well as to study and discover even surprising findings. At that point, doing research resembles the state called flow (see Csikszentmihalyi, 1997) featured by becoming absorbed in the theme with such a deep concentration that time and place are forgotten.
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Uusiautti, S. (2012). Going With the Research Flow from Master’s thesis to Doctoral Thesis and Beyond. In: Määttä, K. (eds) Obsessed with the Doctoral Theses. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-678-6_27
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