Do you learn VERY quickly?

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I figured out closed captioning so fast it was as if I already knew how to do it the first time I tried, but there are so many things that just won't stick in my head. It's like no matter how many times I do it, it's always the first time.

i would say im learning style is pretty much the opposite of what everyone else has said. i have always struggled in learning in school and fallowing directions. i find when people explain something to me, i often don't understand it and often have to tell them to repeat it in other ways. it's very frustrating. i feel like it takes me longer to learn things and get things done that requires thinking compared to most people. i've always thought i related a lot in many things with aspergers and things people have talked about on the forums but this is definitely something that is different. i think if i had one wish it would be to at least learn things as quickly as you guys do because it would make my life so much easier and only have the social thing to worry about and that's it!

I can learn and make correlations very fast, depending upon the subject.

I learn quickly if the topic is interesting. Otherwise, not so much.

One weird phenomenon is that I can get better at something without actually practising. Like, I haven't done something for quite a while but next time I do it I notice a huge improvement for no reason.

It depends on motivation and interest.



TheSunAlsoRises

Yes and No.

I really struggle with being shown how to do something. I need to experiment alone and go through a trial and error phase, before I truly get something.

If I am interested, I can devote all my spare time to it and become pretty competent at it within a short space of time. I probably put more hours in than the typical person would to reach that level of competence. So although it's fast in calendar terms, it's poor in efficiency.

As you'll all know, it's impossible to put special interest level effort into many things, so I often reach a peak, then this side interest wanes. A good example is running, I started running the other year, I got from being completely unfit to regularly running 10k+ every day. Eventually the challenge was lost, and I just completely stopped running.

Jason.

No, it takes me a long time to learn anything. It took me 3 years to learn how to drive, with having a 2-hour driving lesson regularly every week, with good, patient instructers. But I think lack of confidence has got something to do with it too (not social confidence, just general inner confidence is what I needed, which is not what I appear to have). Otherwise, I am just average with learning. Some things I pick up quicker than others, but everybody's different anyway.

Yes i do learn things rather too quickly.

Yes, as long as I find it interesting, I learn things very quickly. I am also an autodidactic. People are generally amazed by my ability to learn new things, but I did not realize how useful my skill is until I began to work, back in 2009. I used to think it was something anybody could do.

The exception is for things requiring physical dexterity. For example, I have an acoustic guitar since 2005, but to this day I have not learned to play it, even though I am fairly good at remembering (and even figuring out by ear) tablatures. I am also a below average swimmer, even though I took swimming lessons for one year.

I can't learn heaps of information quickly even if it's something I'm interested in. Texts, facts, lists, lots of numbers, songs, lyrics, etc. etc. I'm almost unable to say a poem by heart, even if it's something I like very much.

On the other hand, I can "see through" the learned material in my head with relative ease, and if I put out enough effort I can learn non-interesting things, too.

Subjects that interest me, yes. Everything else I feel I learn at an average pace.

I feel as if things come more slowly to me a lot of the time. I have a lot of difficulty following instructions. I do especially badly at technical things, like fixing appliances, that sort of thing.

However, in many ways I feel I understand how the world works better than a lot of people my age. Basic psychology, for instance, comes naturally to me. I can understand why most people do what they do- I can't relate to it necessarily, but I can still understand it. When I took an anthropology class, there were many things he was teaching that, to me, seemed rather obvious. In my first English class, many people were enthusiastic about what they were being taught, while for me it was extremely tedious because I had mulled over similar points in my head years before.

As long as I am left to figure things out my own way. If well-intentioned people give me advice and try to get me to follow what they see as logical order and at an 'instructional' pace - I can just shut down. If I pick up the gist, I make connections very quickly.

Depends what it is and how it's learned. If it's technical, I need to get my hands on it. We have some new equipment at work and I'm expected to "learn" it from a power point presentation and then just use it. I couldn't even understand the powerpoint. There were NO pictures, no videos. Just a droning voice and a few meaningless bulletpoints. I asked my boss if I could get in there and mess around with it, take it apart, run it etc... nope. It's radioactive... fml... I flat out told him I wouldn't be able to learn it from the power point so now I'll never be assigned to a project using said equipment... thank goodness I'm brilliant at the rest of my job...

I learn most things very fast. I don't think I have one special interest unless my interest is just in learning itself. I can apply myself to any topic and go from there - although there usually has to be an instigating reason (my boss instructed me, I want to find out what to make for supper with only 2 ingrediants)

When I work I need to be doing something productive or I fret. Many people don't understand this compulsion and tell me to slow down, I try to explain that I don't like learning/doing nothing (unless I am at home and have scheduled a do nothing time frame LOL) but I have yet to succeed in getting this across to them.

I also find it confusing when someone gives me a task saying it will take me 2-3 weeks and I am done in a half-day or day. Was I supposed to stretch it out longer? I have tried doing that too and it just frustrates the heck out of me. I've also been given a lot of massive tasks and overwhelmed myself completely.

I learn really quickly but then think very slowly.

It's like, I can download the information to my brain rather rapidly, but when I have to think (output, not input), I do so VERY methodically and thus, glacially slow.