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So I've been learning a lot about myself recently.
The first insight I had into my life was last week while I was working a basketball game. I was watching some people in the crowd try to take pictures of themselves. My friend Trevor walked up behind me and said, "What are you so happy about?" Apparently I had a huge grin on my face. So I came to this realization that many times when people think I am smiling because I'm genuinely happy it is really because I am making fun of someone in my head. I probably shouldn't share this because now you will all think this is always the case but it isn't. I am a happy person but some of my happiness just comes from observing and analyzing the behaviors of other people.
I recently learned something else about myself that pretty much rocked my world. So you know how people sometimes say that they are visual learners or learn through reading, etc. Well, I figured out how I learn and I've never heard anyone list this as one of the ways of learning. I am an anecdotal learner. I can hear, read, and do something without it ever sinking in but once someone relates it to real life or tells me a story about it I can make a connection and it is in my memory forever. I'm not sure if this is making sense but maybe if I tell a story you will understand what I mean. So my sophomore year at BYU I took linear algebra from this little chinese man who just copied the book onto the board. I didn't understand anything going on in the class. I know there were matrices and he was somehow manipulating them. The numbers inside the matrices represented vectors but I was so confused. The next semester I took statics (Statics is the branch of mechanics concerned with the analysis of loads (force, torque/moment) on physical systems in static equilibrium, that is, in a state where the relative positions of subsystems do not vary over time, or where components and structures are at a constant velocity). On the first day the teacher explained what a vector was and how it all worked in real life and everything I learned in linear algebra clicked. You have to show me something in real life for it to make sense in my head. I have a hard time thinking about the abstract. So basically the thing I learned is that it doesn't really matter if I am trying to learn through hearing, seeing, or listening, it just has to tell me a story and I will understand it. I'm not sure if I've made any sense at all but it has seriously changed the way that I am studying and learning in my classes.
The first insight I had into my life was last week while I was working a basketball game. I was watching some people in the crowd try to take pictures of themselves. My friend Trevor walked up behind me and said, "What are you so happy about?" Apparently I had a huge grin on my face. So I came to this realization that many times when people think I am smiling because I'm genuinely happy it is really because I am making fun of someone in my head. I probably shouldn't share this because now you will all think this is always the case but it isn't. I am a happy person but some of my happiness just comes from observing and analyzing the behaviors of other people.
I recently learned something else about myself that pretty much rocked my world. So you know how people sometimes say that they are visual learners or learn through reading, etc. Well, I figured out how I learn and I've never heard anyone list this as one of the ways of learning. I am an anecdotal learner. I can hear, read, and do something without it ever sinking in but once someone relates it to real life or tells me a story about it I can make a connection and it is in my memory forever. I'm not sure if this is making sense but maybe if I tell a story you will understand what I mean. So my sophomore year at BYU I took linear algebra from this little chinese man who just copied the book onto the board. I didn't understand anything going on in the class. I know there were matrices and he was somehow manipulating them. The numbers inside the matrices represented vectors but I was so confused. The next semester I took statics (Statics is the branch of mechanics concerned with the analysis of loads (force, torque/moment) on physical systems in static equilibrium, that is, in a state where the relative positions of subsystems do not vary over time, or where components and structures are at a constant velocity). On the first day the teacher explained what a vector was and how it all worked in real life and everything I learned in linear algebra clicked. You have to show me something in real life for it to make sense in my head. I have a hard time thinking about the abstract. So basically the thing I learned is that it doesn't really matter if I am trying to learn through hearing, seeing, or listening, it just has to tell me a story and I will understand it. I'm not sure if I've made any sense at all but it has seriously changed the way that I am studying and learning in my classes.