How hard do you find learning?

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Quite simple; how hard do you find learning new stuff? I'm not talking about any particular method, I mean how long do you have to study or practise something before you get it?

It varies wildly depending on the topic. So, none of the above really.

Yes same thing, really depend what the subject, if it is informatics it come instinctively to me. While if it is economic, I can't understand anything, and only ever passed those course because I am good at mathematics while I felt like a drooling idiot to the theory.

It's not simple at all. It depends on what kind of learning.

Intentional learning I find extremely difficult. If I intentionally decide to learn something, it either takes me much longer than usual, doesn't happen at all, or happens on a short-term basis where I can learn it just long enough to, say, pass a test, and promptly forget it (thank you, American education system!).

Unintentional learning happens without my effort. I'll just be doing things and later find out I've learned something. It's unpredictable, involuntary, and takes place in very odd ways sometimes. Such as doing something a few times, not doing it for years, and doing it again and suddenly being far better at it because my brain has been processing it in the background all that time.

So all I learned from school were essentially sociological lessons about events that happened while I was in school, rather than the material. (Unless you count learning the material in the short term and spitting it out again and then forgetting it, which I was good at for awhile in childhood and then lost the ability to do somewhere in there when my brain felt like it melted.)

It depends on the subject. In school I didn't have to study for the things I enjoyed. In fact, I would just learn about them on my own time.

Other subjects I didn't see any use for personally I rerally had to struggle with.

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

It depends. I can memorize massive ammounts of information the first time I see it, but I cannot remember choreography to save my life.

If it's something I care about, I'll be able to learn about it very easily. If not, then odds are my concentration level will make it hard to learn about it.

Learning what?

ruveyn

I love maths but I can't do it the way the teachers tell me to (ie. following a step process) instead I go home and ponder over a formulae that can find the data I need and then memorize it. Other facts just flow into me thus the bully at school calls me "the random fact guy" xD

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I find it easy to learn about facts, about educational subjects, but it's the social skills that take longer for me, to learn, so I've voted, okay.

It depends. If it's learning about something I like, I absorb it immediately. If it's something I'm not really interested in, it's extremely difficult.

If I'm at least a bit interested in the subject, quite quickly. If not, quite slowly. I have ADHD too, though.. Concentrating can be really hard.

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

It depends on the subject, and on where I am. For example, on math, I find it extremely easy, however, if there's too much noise, I sometimes can't tune it out, and it's really hard to learn. Then, on Society and Economics, I really didn't understand a thing the teacher said, however, I am able to memorize large quantities of information, except in anything that has to do with Social Sciences, and I can't remember choreography, I doubt I would be able to recall choreography even if my life depended on it. Would probably get it all mixed up. However, if it's something I'm not interested in, then it will be really hard, and painful for me and for the teacher.

No problems in reading about facts or things I am interested in-if it has to do with a procedural step by step thing-I have a problem reading and doing like reading the next step then doing it-if someone shows me step by step-not a problem.