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mufc802

mufc802

mufc802

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Just need to get opinions on this.

Had a mathematical problem to do with leveling at college today, continuing on from last week, but I couldn't for the life of me work out how to do it. Everyone else was getting it, but the methods that were being used didn't make sense. Tried to figure it out (asking others) but it wasn't clicking and was very frustrating. A few hours then moved onto something else.

Come home and have a quick look over it, and instantly it made sense. This happens a lot where I just cannot think properly when I'm in a class full of people, but I come home and it all becomes clear. It's really annoying though that I just cannot get a clear head around people unless I know what I'm doing beforehand, I also dislike being taught by a teacher, previously self taught a-level maths and did well. Wish I could do most of the course from a text book and just go in for the field work.

Can anyone relate to this?
 
Yes its called the fog of people around you clouding your thought. :p

I can do anything alone but with people around me I get sod all mentally done, manually
yes but if thinking involved am a loner. I hated school and did not last in collage. :(
 
not a huge issue... just go over things once you get home as you have done... if you can read up on an area in advance then that might help but lectures alone aren't always going to be enough... reading/working through material is key for most things.
 
Similar for me, so you're not alone. At school/uni I was constantly fighting a battle in my mind whether it would be better to sit, listen and soak it all in or whether it would be better to write down copious notes. ".....Listen or write, which one???? Sod it, I'll do both.... Can't keep up.... what did he say? ah ****-it I have no idea what's going on"

Go home, read notes or book: "ah right, that's what he/she was on about then.. I get it now..."

In meetings I'm a firm believer of "i'll get back to you later" when hard facts are required, rather than winging it and spewing forth potential garbage.
 
I do piano lessons and when im learning something with the piano teacher I sometimes struggle and don't really understand. But then I go home practice on my piano, and I think to myself "omg how did I not get that":p
 
I too dislike people, my best work is done completely alone.

My entire time at university all studying was done completely in solitary, lots of bouncing ideas off of a whiteboard, mapping things out logically etc.
 
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mufc802 said:
Just need to get opinions on this.

Had a mathematical problem to do with leveling at college today, continuing on from last week, but I couldn't for the life of me work out how to do it. Everyone else was getting it, but the methods that were being used didn't make sense. Tried to figure it out (asking others) but it wasn't clicking and was very frustrating. A few hours then moved onto something else.

Come home and have a quick look over it, and instantly it made sense. This happens a lot where I just cannot think properly when I'm in a class full of people, but I come home and it all becomes clear. It's really annoying though that I just cannot get a clear head around people unless I know what I'm doing beforehand, I also dislike being taught by a teacher, previously self taught a-level maths and did well. Wish I could do most of the course from a text book and just go in for the field work.

Can anyone relate to this?
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I used to have a similar issue that would sometimes occur and I found the solution by chance, in a biography of an athlete. In order to find their 'zone' under the pressure of the crowds cheering/booing, they would focus on an idea (such as imagining a totally empty arena), a particular sound or a hand gesture until everything else dissappeared. They would then carry on with the task at hand with increased efficiency. Reading random things can be surpringly useful, who knew?

If going back home worked for you, 'going' somewhere on a mental level could also work. It takes some practice to be able to do this but it will be useful for a lifetime if it can be done.
 
Zethor said:
I used to have a similar issue that would sometimes occur and I found the solution by chance, in a biography of an athlete. In order to find their 'zone' under the pressure of the crowds cheering/booing, they would focus on an idea (such as imagining a totally empty arena), a particular sound or a hand gesture until everything else dissappeared. They would then carry on with the task at hand with increased efficiency. Reading random things can be surpringly useful, who knew?

If going back home worked for you, 'going' somewhere on a mental level could also work. It takes some practice to be able to do this but it will be useful for a lifetime if it can be done.
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I like it :)

From The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan:

"The archer ceases to be conscious of himself as the one who is engaged in hitting the bull's-eye which confronts him. This state of unconscious is realized only when, completely empty and rid of the self, he becomes one with the perfecting of his technical skill, though there is in it something of a quite different order which cannot be attained by any progressive study of the art "
 
I pay next to no attention to my surroundings, so being in a room full of people is not an issue for me :p


But leaving a problem for a few hours and coming back to it later does work for everyone. It lets your mind churn at it gentle for a while, and lets you take a fresh look when you return.
 
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