1. is not just about the lack of a vivid life
   1. People who can feel beauty in their lives don't necessarily turn it into words.
      1. Amusing Ourselves to Death
      2. Mediocre beauty create mediocre literature
   2. A lot of literature emphasizes tragedy, and a pair of eyes that can find beautify from daily life does not necessarily extract the heart of tragedy
      1. The heart of ancient Greek epic and drama: tragedy
   3. Many writers have severe physical and mental illnesses and suffer throughout their lives. But they can also write thought-provoking works, and that work itself is not necessarily
      1. Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
      2. Franz Kafka
      3. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy
      4. Albert Camus, the outsider
      5. Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
   4. Literature isn't necessarily about some kind of beauty
2. has something do to with psychology as well
   1. too many posibilities
      1. overwhelming, fail to get organized
      2. have a bounden choose available
      3. Paradox of choice
   2. obsessive behavior
      1. Repeated revisions
      2. Excessive self-debating
      3. OCD-like behavior
   3. Failed to track a specific topic
      1. There are too many ideas and information to organize.
      2. Inability to control the length of the paper on specific topic, thus giving up
      3. similar to autism
3. So, it's wrong to accuse students of incompetence in choosing essay topics because they have no ability to discover beauty hided in their lives
4. Difficulties in choosing a topic include subconscious psychological factors
   1. Techniques
      1. Subtopic 1
      2. Subtopic 2
      3. Subtopic 3