Publishing is an art: Publish your thoughts and let nature feel proud of you.

 Sooner or later, an academic person has to enter the research domain. Once, you enter this domain, and you get addicted to it, there is no chance to have an exit. It becomes your habit to think, criticize, innovate and publish. Publishing is as easy as sending text messages and it is as difficult as writing a resignation letter for your favorite job. It is easy because it reflects your thoughts, your criticism of your own mindfulness, and your innovative capabilities. For sure, everybody has the same size brain and therefore, they have the guts to publish their stuff. Difficult because you have to overcome your feelings, your emotions, you have to suppress your heart through the mind. Difficult because not all have the courage to oppose their own mind. 

Why publish? 

When someone starts working on anything, there comes many questions in mind: why? what would be the benefit? what would be the impact? and a good researcher has to answer these questions to him/herself before proceeding to the next step. You should publish your ideas, your thoughts, and your intellectual outcomes to benefit society. It is always the need of the society that every individual of it should contribute. How can they contribute? The simplest way is to express your ideas. Express what is your ideology. Say it, what you want to say. Write it, what you want to write. And let it go through the eyes of others so that they can adopt it, reject it or alter it with their perspective and approach. 

How to publish? 

Many of us, always have a lot to talk about, a lot to write but when we start expressing our ideas, there comes a barrier, the first obstacle on our way coming directly through the mind; a bunch of questions. What will others think of it? What if they don't like it? What if they say that you are wrong? What if they criticize it? What if they think down upon me? What if they will find my idea as a piece of shit? and many more. With all these hurdles on our moment of expression, a good researcher accepts all these questions as a challenge and answer to him/herself "alright! Let see what others can contribute to my idea". If they will not like it, it means their likeness is different than mine. If they tell me I am wrong, I will ask for the right thing and I will enrich my vocabulary with a new idea. If they will criticize me, I will accept the criticism to alter my idea and improve it. If they will look down upon me, I will work more to rise up. And If they will find my idea as a piece of shit, It means they have no mind at all. Because even when we write the word "shit" we have an image in our mind and we ask ourself that whose shit it will be? and that means it already involved a critical approach of mine about asking myself a question. Express your thought: Go post them and see the reaction for your next step in innovation and helping society. 

Conclusion: 

The most important and precious gift of nature to a human being is MIND. Minus the mind from the human body, the rest is just an animal. Don't let anyone do this Mathematics with you. Publish your thoughts and let nature feel proud of you. 

Dr. Ghulam Rasool, 

Ph.D. Fluid Dynamics