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Being—and becoming—a researcher is not merely a technical or methodological journey; it is an existential and epistemic struggle. One of the deepest challenges in this journey is precisely what Francis Bacon once described as the task of destroying the idols of the mind: the invisible prejudices, inherited assumptions, institutional dogmas, emotional attachments, and career-driven fears that silently shape what we dare to ask, what we choose to ignore, and what we quietly accept as “truth.” These idols do not only distort knowledge; they also enslave the researcher’s imagination, courage, and moral responsibility. To truly become a researcher is therefore not just to produce data, but to engage in an ongoing inner confrontation with intellectual comfort, symbolic authority, and the seductive safety of conformity. Every real breakthrough in knowledge begins at the precise moment when the researcher risks standing alone against what everyone else finds obvious.

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