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This chapter discusses my doctoral journey. It is a narrative of how being a student of colour from the global south, I navigated my research at a western university, learning to question the Eurocentric worldviews that on many occasions construct the development problems of the global south. I examine different aspects of a western doctorate while discussing my doctoral journey as an example. I open the chapter by highlighting different factors that contributed to my decision to pursue a doctorate. The motivation discussion notes that conceptualising a doctorate as training to become a researcher is too simplistic. Such motivation does not unpack or ignores students’ personal and socioeconomic motivational factors. Then I portray my struggles of finding a research topic to show how it changed to something very different from the initial one and argue that the process does not always follow a conventional way. I outline how my motivational factors for finding an alternative approach to understand society and individuals’ positioning helped me to construct my hybrid postcolonial development research methodology which questions western worldviews and ways that are usually taken for granted in postcolonial societies. I also lead the reader to see how my friends, family, and supervisors helped me to turn my thesis from a failure into an excellent one (as I later received the Dean’s Award). I discuss how my research project contributes to the existing knowledge base, my professional career, and my personal inquiries regarding my existence in society. For example, using a postcolonial theoretical framework, I argue that it is okay to question modern approaches and discourses in order to make room for alternative ones as they adjust each other to create better ideas. As a part of the process of evolving into a critical, but empathetic researcher I narrate my doctoral journey reflecting, questioning, and at some point critiquing its various components.