Re:I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
by growlist on Monday August 06, 2018 @05:30AM
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I've often thought about this - I suffered at school because the subject matter quickly seemed to arrive at one or more foundational concepts to not be explored further, whereas my brain would constantly ask, 'but why?'. The relentless pace didn't suit me at all. Nevertheless I learnt to override this in time and now have a BSc and MSc.
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Re:I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
by techstrategist on Monday August 06, 2018 @09:39AM
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That’s interesting, I shared the “but why” until mid way through a BSc in Physics. The foundational concepts of “this is how {thermo|mechanics|quantum} works” was exciting, but the remainder of each semester was “now let’s work through all the edge cases” and I had difficulty keeping up.
Re:I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
by billysielu on Monday August 06, 2018 @06:53AM
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I had that problem at school too. It felt like a denial of service attack.
Did you begin a parallel learning project for actually understanding the material?
When I was at school you mean?
Re:I’m a very slow thinker (2016)
by handsomechad on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:49AM
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Same here! Glad other people felt this way.