Posted by alexandra_k on January 23, 2014, at 1:39:54
In reply to Re: I don't feel very well. » Phillipa, posted by baseball55 on January 22, 2014, at 20:10:46
i guess i think that sometime people just sort of naturally click with things... like how i just naturally clicked with books... but that other times people just need a bit of a hand up to get things to click. i do remember liking those little logic puzzles... i just forgot that those were math. and i like shape stuff... i guess more recently... seeing how complicated anatomy was... how... irregular... a-symmetric... how different each vertebrae was from each other... how the 9 real scapulae were quite different in size and with differently prominent points... the individual variation...
i used to love poetry... even more once i studied it. after the teacher talked through the themes and images and the use of metaphor etc etc etc. i appreciate art more after reading something of what curators and artists and critics have to say about it. i mean... i don't think any of their voices authorative... but they give me material... and i can use all of that... along with the work... to come to my own considered view. it took me a while to see that art... was like that. it was something that naturally clicked to me for poems...
i never got how music was math before. i can read music a little... i never really got how math was.... tempo... timing... i still don't know that i get that entirely... but somewhat. counting in threes... counting in fours... different tempos...
i think... math is a bit of a tool. there are equations that are useful for different things. and sometimes people learn how to plug and chug those for whatever ends... like.. calculating BMI. or whatever. nutritional requirements. then if you ask 'does it have to be done like that - what if i do it like this, is this equivalent?' they give you blank stares... because they don't know... they just do what they are told...
the hotel questions freak me out. because you have to guess. then you adjust things. but it is scary just throwing that guess out there in the first place. what is even scarier... is that i'm getting quite good at guessing right. pick 2 numbers with 5 difference between them that total x amount -- i'm getting fairly good at those. to my surprise.
practice practice practice...
it is a bit controversial (child savants for music and math are typically thought to be exception) but 100,000 hours to expertise. i think people often underestimate... what introverts may get up to with their minds when they are left to their own devices. i wonder what is going on in my mind when i wake up thinking about 4x6...
i have started asking people about math. it is a common thing... mathemeticians are are thought to peak early. significant discovery by 24 or... go do something else. perhaps philosophy?? (philosophers peak late. typically just before senility / death / dementia). why is this???? people go from math to philosophy. people (other than me) do not typically go from philosophy into math. why is that??? maybe my math brain will peak later because i started later. i didn't quite appreciate... the reason why... is because of how sequential it is.
because... one has to start a-f*ck*ng-gain.
how many people are prepared to... do kindy sums???
80 hours of practice logged...
what will become of me?
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