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lectures dont work on me because you're pushing things into my brain whether I care or not, whether I already know or not, whether I'm ready or focused, and don
by syngrog66 5y ago
lectures dont work on me because you're pushing things into my brain whether I care or not, whether I already know or not, whether I'm ready or focused, and don't give me a chance to pause or ask questions, or crosscheck terms or go off on fractal pseudo-tangents to fill in the blanks in my mental map, etc.
therefore, for me, reading is soooo much better. though video lectures at least allow you to pause, its still too little signal density with too much noise, usually.
Also I am a very visual learner, and I use mental maps & 3D/4D system models inside my mind, and build/run little simulations in there as part of understanding and leveraging that knowledge. reading text & diagram inputs "fit" with that brain style better than traditional classroom lectures
pull (on demand, when ready) rather than push
- npsimons 5y agoYour comment is down at the bottom because you got here late, but everything you said is true. In order to get any truly deep thinking (or masterful practice of anything for that matter) done, you need to have focus and that almost always means alone without interruptions, at your own pace. Yeah, yeah, you need input to correct mistakes, but that's mostly at the beginning anyway, before one develops the mental model to self-correct. And I learned that by reading Ericsson's "Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise". > Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. - Edward Gibbon