I've notices recently that the focus I have when reading articles has changed quite dramatically. In undergraduate, I really didn't care how a researcher did anything or how they validated their claims, I just wanted to see the interpretation of their results so I could paraphrase them and be done with it. Now I'll spend days pouring over their method and results section to see if there is absolutely anything I dislike. I'll spend time trying to simulate some small part of it to get some understanding, make notes on anything that seemed absurdly difficult or just redundant.
I do tend to notice now though that the moments of genius people get are always in these sections, although the language has to be so plain that you really can't express the joy you get from making some realisation that made your method work. It seems a shame to paraphrase this now.
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