![]() Letting go of your own interests and preconceived ideas to “trust in emergence.”.Developing the courage to let the research participants define the research problem, and.Acknowledging that it is virtually impossible to understand grounded theory methodology prior to using it,.The most difficult challenges of becoming a grounded theory researcher are: I soon realized that conducting research centering on what matters to research participants- grounded theory research- means there is no path and, certainly, there is no way of knowing what you will find. Initially I set out, on what I thought was a well- traveled path, to find empirical evidence of what I knew to be true. This line from the Spanish poet Antonio Machado captures the spirit of my research process and the theories that emerged from that process. (The path must be forged as you walk.) Antonio Machado ![]() (Traveler, there is no path.) Se hace camino al andar. ![]()
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