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| Cognitive differences
Posted: 5/27/2008 7:29:41 AM | Celtimist, (I like this a slight bit better -- not a Celtic mist, but a person who is an alchemist of sorts in matters of Celtic issues)
I asked a professor in third year what the faculty thought of me. He said, Andrew, we have a generally uniform opinion of everyone, like this guy's going to go far or that girl is not very bright [just examples] but we're completely divided on you: Some of us are convinced you're a genius, while others are sure you're a bubble, a nobody, who plays his ec- and egocentricity very well.
Have you found that people either really like you or they really don't like you or they really are indifferent? Did you find that people have strong feelings and opinions on you, and they run the gammut of value judgements?
It may be for me that way because I have a strong personality. I like being the centre of attention. But I also was the best in my high school in Hungarian composition and in Math. It was a school for gifted children. Fortunately nobody was telling me what I could do or could not do (like they told you that you cannot be good at both.) This may be due to either of two things. One may be that the knowledge of learnign styles theories was not cultivated there, so they had no theoretical knowledge to prove I cannot exist. The other may be that as much as Americans and even Canadians would never admit to it, socialist countries did have some freedom for its citizens that North American ones did not. It's true we could not leave the country and we had to march on May Day parades and spew communist slogans, but there were some freedoms that meant a lot to people, and those freedoms have never been available to people living in North America.
I'm most definitely right-handed. But then again, my lack of proper control over my motor movements may be stemming from my having two left hands? Maybe they both prefer to be submissive? Maybe I was oppressed as a child or as an adult and I find myself more comfortable in roles of a dependent person and not of a leader or provider? (It's VERY true.)
Ah, the mind/emotion/body entanglement with one's personality and soul...
This goes for you, too, Sapphire. I admire your courage. You see, post-accident you knew what you had used to be, and you missed it... huge motivation. I can immensely identify with that too. Unfortunately I cannot talk about that on the forum, because though there was nothing criminal about it, what I had gone through was a bit (a lot) less acceptable socially than the heroic act of fighting one's way back from a damaged cerebral state. | |
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Posted: 9/7/2008 11:55:02 AM | | I've been working at a brain injury rehabilitation center for the past year. You can imagine the thrill everyone has when there's a break-through and the person "wakes up". Our brains are amazing, awesome creations, and we need to take better care of them. There are so many exercises to do which help memory and stave off Alzheimers (Healthy Brain Kit by Weil and Small). | |
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Posted: 9/7/2008 12:35:24 PM | dont know the etiology of this particular memory problem. i have a similar one which was much worse when i was in the counseling business where many deep subjects had to be discussed while keeping my distance. it may be nothing more than that | |
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| Cognitive differences
Posted: 9/7/2008 12:55:40 PM | I was so glad to see an earlier mention of learning styles. I really believe that an understanding of these styles can help tremendously in the professional and the personal lives. Sort of related to Myers-Briggs; while we should not be limited to our "type", we can find ways of working beyond our type.
With learning styles (mainly visual, aural, and kinesthetic), we all have one dominant feature. I am extremely visual, with kinesthetic a close runner-up. My aural learning style, though, is awful! I never could understand why I had so much difficulty processing a conversation on the phone, with no difficulty if I was seeing the individual in person. So what do I do to adapt? If I am listening to a conversation on the phone, I take notes. The kinesthetic and visual "cues" help me to understand that conversation. I know, it sounds odd! But it works.
So, if you are ever speaking with me on the phone...yep, I am taking notes on the other side, but not to trap you! I'm doing it so I don't sound like a total idiot in my replies. | |
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Posted: 9/7/2008 4:58:48 PM | | I drive truck and most people would be surprised at the amount of paperwork we have to do,not only that but match times of tolls to logbooks,etc.I write everything down or I'm lost. I'm good at whats called spacial mathematics,the ability to look at objects and see how they are made or how a machine works,that's why I got into auto mechanics when I was young.But dates and names? Forget it,I have to write it down. | |
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