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How hard do you find learning?
Quite easy 31%  31%  [ 8 ]
Moderately easy 27%  27%  [ 7 ]
Okay 19%  19%  [ 5 ]
Moderately difficult 8%  8%  [ 2 ]
Quite difficult 15%  15%  [ 4 ]
Total votes : 26

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30 Jun 2010, 4:14 pm

I have major ADD and while I'm not hyper, I have a hard time focusing and I'm an extreme procrastinator. I can learn quickly, but if I'm forced to, I'm usually not inclined to do so as although I like learning, I don't like the stress of thinking that I don't know the material and I don't like to read material quickly. I require less work than given as I'm one of the most, if not the most genuinely intelligent students at my school(Even AP kids are in their classes because they want the credits and do well because they study, but they don't usually care for the material. Although certain people can be smarter than me in one or two areas, my collective knowledge is quite great.
However, I was born with motor skills issues and I write really slow, That, coupled by my perfectionism and procrastination isssues makes my life at school extremely stressfull. I have been resolving my motor skills issues in the past year through typing and lightsaber choreography, and I'm starting to stop being a perfectionist, but I have not used a pencil in a year(Went to cyberschool this year.). I had an anxiety attack about the coming year and college of course. I haven't had one quite as bad in a while.



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30 Jun 2010, 5:03 pm

I heard that when learning about sex it better be "hard" hehehehe--just teasing :D :D 8)



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30 Jun 2010, 6:17 pm

Callista wrote:
Being interested in something allows me to learn it without effort. If I'm uninterested, it's like pulling teeth, and nearly as painful.


Ditto. If I'm not interested, forget it.

It also depends on the teaching method. Even if I'm interested, if the subject is presented in a way that doesn't mesh with way I think, I don't absorb it. I do far better when left to my own devices, learning on my own, in my own way.


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30 Jun 2010, 6:40 pm

Todesking wrote:
I learn pretty well its just I have a hard time retaining what I have learned due to my bad memory. :?


My short term memory is terrible too. I learn things quite quickly but within a day or two I've forgotten how to do them. This is a big problem with maths, like when solving a problem requires multiple steps and it's not that I'm stupid, I just can't remember the steps. That's why in school I would sit in maths class and pretend that I was working.

Oddly enough I have no problem memorizing facts (about anything) and when I was a kid I learned my times-tables very quickly.


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