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Dangerous forest or enchanted meadow?
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[Herb Sevush] “Because I am so naturally messy I have forced myself to be extremely precise in aspects of my work to save me from me. “
Goodness me, do I recognise that!
The only area of my life where I am obsessively tidy is editing.
Please don’t ask my wife about the rest of it – she will say things that are deeply disobliging.
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tokyo productions
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That completely describes everything I’ve learned in my life. And probably keeps me from taking my skills a notch higher. I’ll first try something, get a little gist, get stuck, then do a tutorial or take a lesson or advice, then learn the rest myself. My training from there on, whether it’s guitar, building a fence (last week), or video production tends to be limited to forums and YouTube. Even with a small tutorial from ripple or Denver riddle I tend to watch just enough to get the gist then I’m off playing with the controls or trying to figure it out for myself. If I don’t figure out things by doing, I just don’t retain the info.
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[Bret Williams] “If I don’t figure out things by doing, I just don’t retain the info.”
Figuring it out on your own is a good thing, but what hinders progress is whether you only work on your own or work in a team or collaborative environment with others. It’s easy to learn bad habits when the only person you have to answer to is yourself. My son teaches guitar and the folks who come in who’ve already learned some on their own are often the worst students. He has to break bad habits first before he can teach correct technique that will let them progress.
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Agreed. Luckily I started in numerous collaborative environments, and even early freelance years were still collaborative. Still get a taste here and there.
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Just don’t get stuck in the same “and everyone experiences this like I do” trap.
My wife is an instructional specialist and knows a lot of learning theory. She’s always told me that there are many natural learning modalities that different individuals favor in their unique mental mix of how they learn.
It sounds like you’re what she occasionally described to me as an “experiential” learner.
I never understood the distinction very much until we set out to raise a son who’s HEAVILY weighted as an auditory learner. He struggled in schools with anything written, but during the 4th Harry Potter book I read to him, if I’d reference something small and basically arcaneI’d read to him from the first book – if I got it even slightly wrong – he’d quietly correct me and 10 out of 10 times he’d be precisely correct. He soaked up learning by LISTENING like a sponge. Watching or doing, somewhat less.
I suspect fields like Editing that require particular audio and visual acuity tend to attract people who tilt towards the communications modes that support that – so there might be some general similarities between us in the same way that many really tall athletes tend to drift toward basketball – but if you don’t watch out, it might turn out to be a bit easy to fall into the trap of thinking that because someone isn’t exceptionally tall – they won’t have exceptional basketball sense.
It’s interesting to discuss, anyway.
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