It is always better to work smarter than harder. You can work hard, but if work smart you will get more accomplished than if simply worked hard. If there is a smarter/simpler way to do things and you don't know, it could provide with more stress than working smarter.
I worked hard all my life...now I work smart by leveraging my time with work and play. Ahhh, life is so much better now! SMILES :-).
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.