Today’s post is on how looking up new articles from reference lists can lead to amazing discoveries, and it’s quite interesting to note how one thing leads to the other…especially when you’re doing literature reviews…and usually it’s like this: You are reading some article on your main subject when you see some interesting references, which you look up, just to find even more interesting references, which you also look up, just to be led even further astray… and soon you find yourself reading something that isn’t even remotely related to – but at the same time much more fascinating than – what you were researching in the first place. No wonder I cannot get things done… That’s how I stumbled upon the Theory of Constraints, an amazing discovery that came from the aforementioned a-maze-ing discoveries (i.e. references that led me astray).

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