Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Boredom turns into a learning process

I don't really have anything spectacular to blog about, but I also don't have anything to do. I could read, but I don't feel like it and you can't read unless you feel like it. I haven't learned anything "WOW!" that everybody can apply to their lives. (I mean everybody else saw that stupid door) Unless you count that when you're looking up words in the Spanish Dictionary, you should double-check to make sure the word is not in the dictionary before you concluded that it isn't and therefore not complete the rest of your assignment. I learned that one this week. Guess how?.... which makes me realize that I do have something to talk about..... Learning.
What makes you learn somethings fast and other things we have to learn over and over and over and over and get smacked in head a couple times and then over and over and over again. I mean it didn't take me twice to learn that if I put my hand on the stove when it says "Hot" I might get burned.... okay so it did, but heat is a relative measure. It might be hot to you, but not to me. So I always have to see if it really is hot or if "they" just think it is. However, I don't stand there for an hour with my hand on the stove thinking "Hmm.... I'm still not sure if it's hot or not maybe a few more minutes.... Oh Snap! My hand's melted on the stove... again... MOM!" Give me some credit, I'm smarter than that! Usually if it's hot I pull my hand away. I can decide in if it's hot in less than two seconds, which I'm rather proud of.
Another thing about learning is what I call "persistent learning." Just to clear thing up I think persistence is a very admirable trait in most cases, like William Wilberforce trying to abolish the slave trade. But in other cases it's just stupid. No matter how many times you try you can not defy gravity on your bike going off your roof. (or try to get the words "can not" to bold and italicise on your blog... GRRR!) You can play Super-cool-get-the-ladies-even-though-they-don't- care-stunt-man all your life but it's not gonna work... dude. How many times to you have to almost die before you can get that through your head.
As soon as they get of the hospital they say, "Dude, I almost got it last time. Let's go again!" That is where you slap in the head and say, "DUDE! When are you gonna learn?"
If there's one thing I've learned in school it's that often times you have to repeat what you say at least three times before people will soak it in their heads. If there's one thing I've learned in school it's that often times you have to repeat what you say at least three times before people will soak it in their heads. If there's one thing I've learned in school it's that often times you have repeat what you say at least three times before people will soak it in their heads.
Also, what seems like the easiest, most basic thing, is usually the hardest, mainly because you think it's hard because it's so easy and you over analyze.
Most of the time we will have to learn things over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, because we're humans. We mess up.... a lot and when we mess up we learn either, not to do it again or we earn it after a couple times. And like everything there's a Short-cut, you can learn from other people's mistakes, that way you don't have to make them yourself. No matter what, you will always learn and you will always make the same mistake on something. That's why there's something called forgiveness. Ain't that nice?
.......So, what did you learn?

2 comments:

michelle said...

I learned that you think way too much about learning

If you need something to do, I have some kids you could entertain

Kaylee's Blog said...

yep... I learn A LOT when I watch them... mostly about whose toys are whose...