"Disciplined attention to the true meaning of ‘it feels right to me.’"

Identify three places in the text that you can point to with your finger.

1.     Something you loved!

2.     Something you hated!

3.     Something you found totally and utterly incomprehensible.

Often the things we love, hate or do not understand indicate places of greater depth, significance, and complexity than we usually afford them.  Identifying them from the start allows us to get inside that information and exhaust it.  This is very useful technique to help you from uncritically dismissing, or embracing, material (or opinions). 

This technique also breaks down the desire to maintain binary thinking about emotions and thought—disciplined attention to the true meaning of 'it feels right to me'" requires us to see that thought carries emotion, and emotion carries thought.  We can then endeavor to apply ourselves to the practice of disciplined attention to ourselves as scholars.  This is necessary if we also are attempting to apply disciplined attention to course material.

I've adapted this from Audre Lorde's "Poetry Is Not a Luxury"