From a practical standpoint, I retain information better if I read it vs hear it. Even when it comes to movies and TV shows that I watch, I remember plots and quotes and minor details from remembering reading about them rather than remembering watching them.
This looks interesting. Iāll give him a shot.
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You may need to buzz through the first 10 minutes or so of the first lecture because he is doing some intro/housekeeping. And the further that you get into the series the more heās built foundational layers and is advancing into higher level concepts.
Lecture #24, which is labeled āSchizopreniaā, is actually about far more than just that, and was my favorite one. Specifically, because heās talking about the underlying human behavioral biology that leads to what he terms as āschizo-typalā behavior, and how it relates to the people that have existed within cultures throughout history who become the shamans, or religious, or spiritual leaders.
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Same! Absolutely amazing series, fully recommend.
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This guy is so easy to listen to. Halfway through and I donāt think there has been a single āumāā¦
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Iām the same way. Iād rather spend 10 minutes reading something than 30 minutes having some someone read it to me.
Itās interesting how people learn differently. I remember in school if something was covered in the lecture I would get it right. Couldnāt remember much of what I read though.
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Itās why I think racism will always be a part of our culture. Some people are just visual learners and will always rely on visual cues for social behavior because you canāt train them to treat people based on anything other than what people look like. Maybe you can train them to consider clothing or hair more than skin, but those things still correlate to race in ways that make relying on them problematic.
my attention span is maximum 10 minutes. 30 minutes if I concentrate really, really hard.
Its a skill that can be developed by practice. Its very hard though given contemporary internet stimulus, but it can be worked on.
Learn to read faster.
maybe, but I have ADHD. Not that it is an excuse but things that seem simple for most people can be extraordinarily difficult for me, if not impossible.
Iāve adapted by being good at juggling several tasks at once. Itās like the only way I can function at all. It helps if I have something like talk radio in the background to keep my mind on while i work.
I hear you, sorry I didnāt mean to suggest it was strictly a lack of willpower. I have personally struggled with my attention span because my work has shifted over time from focused time to managing email blizzards. Its really damaged my ability to focus, but Iāve clawed back some of it with practice.
Nah you didnāt. Whenever I mention it though people are always like, āyou just need to try harderā or āyou need to do meditationā or even ājust be present.ā Things like that. Itās hard for people to understand that my brain just does not work correctly, so I just always throw it in there.
I am trying to get into meditation and stuff for better focus, but I will frequently forget what the hell Iām doing like 30 seconds into it, so it always feels pointless.
My work also has periods of long lulls and then intense activity - and I get interrupted by IMās a lot. Previously, I could focus at work because of the social pressure of wanting to look/seem productive (even if you werenāt). Iām the type of person that would rather just work than pretend to work. But, given the nature of my job, the slow pace, and working from homeā¦ yea itās just been a perfect storm of attention deficit.
For me itās mostly a matter of tricking my brain into getting hyper focused on the correct thing, but it always goes āoooo this is way more interesting than the thing youāre supposed to be doingā
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This is widely believed. It makes sense. I thought so too. But itās not true. Or at best the evidence is mixed. Like arguing about the best diet for weight loss.
Iām not really following. Can you explain this over video chat for me?
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Haha. Iām not saying people donāt have preferences.
Iād rather Sabine Hossenfelder explain a physics concept in a video than dig it out of a dusty textbook. Fasting combined with other strategies worked for me to lose weight. Ymmv
I could see this being something we are told and just believe without any real science behind it.
On the other hand I think one major problems with education is this one size fits all approach.
I think if you have certain neurological deficits (like ADHD) then visual vs listening may be huge for your learning. For instance, I took a formal test that measured my response times and accuracy by clicking a button every time I saw the word āoneā or heard someone say the word āone.ā It was seemingly very simple but I didnāt do well.
The report was pretty in depth and it noticed that I had far worse accuracy and response time scores on the visual prompts than the auditory ones, which suggested (according to the report) that I may process auditory information better. Which is funny because previously, I would have said visual.
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