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Discussion on: Finding a master thesis topic - I need help!

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dallgoot

i would go with the subjects that interest me and then list the points involved and question how well-studied they are and then find the ones with the weaker studies and look into if there's room for additional research.
Very theorytical but i hope that helps ;)

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Christin Westermann

thank you for that advise :-) I think my biggest problem is, that I think that a lot of things that I am interested in, have already been solved in one way or another and I am not "good enough" or whatever, to come up with something that has not been there yet. I guess I have to overcome that feeling :-P

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dallgoot

yes, the point is not to think in terms of "capable" but in "what's left"
I explain : the top subject, the most obvious, there's little chance that no studies have been made and that's ok.
The point is to bring value with your work to something not studied (or maybe with a different approach).
So even for the top subjects , there are subparts and what i meant is you probably can develop those subparts as a full subject.
In short terms, obvious questions have been answered, non-obvious are waiting for you :)
BUT ;) you have to dig deeper in the subjects you like to find them :)