dear friends..
everynight i sleep with open my eye (how could it be?) hahaha.. but the true story that im very worried about my progress in phd. actually, i'm in a first sem (6 months) as a student. everyday i do searching info, get lit review n reading, go to training (about how to do lit review, SEM analysis etc).. but until now i have nothing in my head. hmm.. i try to get one topic i like but i feel it old topic n no interesting. that's thing happened everyday.. and i now, i feel i waste time for 6 months with nothing.. oh ..everybody out of there.. please help me.. i don't know what to do..

my specific area - psychology industrial and organizational`

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Hello,
I think that looking into main scholarly journals should help to find vibrant topics.
For instance, you could consider a research perspective of a journal or conference paper dealing with your subject of interest. Discuss any PhD subject idea with supervisor and peers, it may help a lots, they could tell you about the value of a subject you selected and give confidence you lack to start.
I have spent two years to find a subject that interest me and that I am enthusiastic about. Actually, I was before that working on a different subject proposed by ex-supervisor and I was not enthusiastic about it at all.
My field is Computer Science, maybe your field is different, nonetheless, you lose nothing by giving a try :-)

Good luck.

I was accepted onto a PhD which already had a vague brief, but I asked my supervisor for the three most relevent journals and searched the least three years. I am very fortunate in that my suprvisor is active in his field and engaging to listen to, he gives pointers but does not suppose I have read everything, nor does he make me feel stupid if I haven't read something relevent.
The most useful way I have found so far is by attending workshops which are being run by existing university projects, listening to other pepole speak and discussion amongst stakeholders I have managed to find several good areas for future research, this has then enabled me to target my reading.