Talking abut ideas and indecisiveness.

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Does anyone else have problems with this? I like to just do things my own way, get along with them myself and show the end product to people if they need to see it. I'm a lot like this with schoolwork. If a teacher asks me to explain what I'm doing for an essay or projects, I'll lock up and find it bloody ard to even say anything unless I'm a fair way through it - even if I've panned it all out in my head beforehand to completion. Maybe it's just because I'm not sure of the validity of my topic choice due to my interests somewhat...limiting my creative imagination (art & design + video gaming + war + warhammer 40000 + guns and explosions = limited project ideas x( ).

Also, is anyone else here particularly indecisive? I have an awfu time making decisions at the moment, maybe I'm just stressed from the type that I'm called on to make (uni choices, possible careers etc. (I know what i want to do, just not what specific courses...)).

Blaaagooh.

Good luck with everything!

I make decisions fairly easily, but I relate to your struggle with telling people your ideas, especially in the early stages of their development. I have trouble describing abstract concepts sometimes. I just can't find the right words. It's so frustrating, because I don't want people to think I'm in idiot just because I can't describe to them what's going on inside my brain...

Oh, let me count the ways :)




One employer referred to this habit of mine as 'deer in the headlights'. For me, it's because I can 'see' in my minds eye everything at once, but can't 'serialize' it. This is especially true for things that are multi dimensional in space and time. One example might be trying to describe (de-scribe... hmmm... why isn't it EN-scribe?) in words a time lapse video of a house being constructed.

Also, if you bound my hands together I'd be mute ;-). It's nearly impossible not to appear like I'm doing pottery or prestidigitation while trying to explain something.



Constantly.

One contributing factor is that I see things from multiple views. Another is that sometimes the criteria is in flux.

As for multiple views, I tend to decide a course which tends to benefit the most involved. If choices are irritatingly close, I try to force a random one and live with a decision that's 'good enough'.

When things are in flux, it usually means there will also be conflict - either I beat myself up (I should've built it out of bricks, not sticks) or find myself explaining a (now poor) choice to someone else (last January we didn't have enough money for bricks - how was I to know a wolf was going to huff & puff?)


Hope this helps.

LOL

I have the multiple view thing! i never give a straight answer.