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First, I've uploaded information, talk to people or read stuff and these type of things. But when it is for the papers come, that's usually when my brain is some type of relaxing state. So either it's when I wake up or I'm in the shower in the morning, but very, very often, it's when I live right by the forest. So every day, I walk my dog deep into the forest, and then I get some time to just ruminate on this stuff. And then unexpected stuff happened.
Pieces that shouldn't be together come together. So I don't know in advance, but it just happens. Not at all. But I think I always usually start with some type of dialectic structure. So I do think that science works in this Hegelian structure. So I try to imagine the audience, I try to imagine why they are wrong.
So science is about falsification. So I mentalize an audience and think, why are they wrong and how I have to convince them otherwise. And that's a bit like the main structure. And then afterwards, I'm very inspired by movies and books, especially movies. So one way of doing it is that the early-- just they get a foresight of what's going to happen. But sometimes, the structure is that they think everything is as usual.
And then the problem comes at the end to create a bit of engagement. They're surprised about the question. So that's, I think, is the main difference either that Darth Vader is the father of Luke in the beginning of Star Wars or that by the end of the introduction, both things work. Well, I do it by-- in Scandinavia, we have this character called Pippi Longstocking.
And Pippi Longstocking, her mother's dead and her father's captain in the Pacific Ocean. So she says, I have to be my own mother. So that's what I do. I try to block myself inside my own office so I am not allowed to go out. I am not allowed to do anything-- obviously not social media or anything like that. And then after I bore myself for a certain while, I create this so you have to do your homework.
Then it comes to me. But that's how I do it. So I admire people that can just sit down and do it, but I have to make some constraints on myself. Well, I wish I could tell you that I did, but I don't. I truly don't. So I go to my lecture and I like it. I have two little time writing, and I try to be inside research as much as I can.
But the thing is that I think for all the young researchers out there, I've landed on my feet anyway. You don't have to. I mean, it's good to have that structure, but I think you can come a long way by just being continuously engaged. Well, I think that to go back to the movies and think about the story, think about the amazement.
And also, sometimes people are good at political messaging too. There are certain things that are unexpected, I think, are people really disagreeing to this? And if nobody disagrees to what you're going to say, well, maybe, I mean, it's self-evident. So I think go back to that. Will people be engaged by your question? I think that after being here with JCPP Advances and being an editor now for some years, it took some time to dawned on me that editors and reviewers are people too.
So I think maybe to think of the review process and the interaction with the editor as more like a dialogue-- they're just like you. And you are allowed to disagree and present your argument. And I think that took a while to see that yeah, they're just like you, only older.