Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:
Yeah, very much. Things tend to make no sense to me at first, but then at some point it will all suddenly become clear (or a big chunk of it will, anyway). I.e. Learning calculus was like that. And when I was about 15 I stared at a reference manual for 2 weeks until it all suddenly made sense, and then I could then write (6502) machine code with no problems.
It seems like things 'cook' in the back of my mind in some mysterious/opaque way, and when that process is done it sends the information back to the front of my mind in large chunks.simfish wrote:
That pretty much exactly describes me, at least with most subjects that I'm mildly interested in but not obsessed with. I'd describe it as, perhaps "epiphanous learning". In Grade six, for instance, I did pretty poorly on some coursework for long divison yet did well on an end of unit test.
I'd also like to say that life events, situations, and dilemas make a lot more sense and, to some degree, even seem "more real" in hindsight rather than when they are occuring.
Genuinely learned material seems to "stick" longer and is more "deeply integrated", at least I'd assume, for me than for the average person. But it takes me A LOT more time to initally learn the material.